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Re:Bring back the 40-hour work week by DanBC on Thursday March 15, 2012 @06:30AM (#3707748)
> there is always a peer who is putting in extra hours innovating, building and learning

For every peer putting in stupid hours innovating, building and learning there are > 1 peers putting in stupid hours fixing errors of other overworked colleagues or just grinding through the stuff they could have done in 40 hours if they didn't have an asshole boss / broken business culture.

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Re:Bring back the 40-hour work week by kamaal on Thursday March 15, 2012 @07:10AM (#3707849)
I don't know why you consider working hard as a broken culture.
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Re:Bring back the 40-hour work week by maushu on Thursday March 15, 2012 @07:57AM (#3707970)
It is broken if that "working hard" is not productive.
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Re:Bring back the 40-hour work week by Ihavenoname on Thursday March 15, 2012 @07:56AM (#3707968)
"Lesson Three is this: five-day weeks of eight-hour days maximize long-term output in every industry that has been studied over the past century. What makes us think that our industry is somehow exempt from this rule?"

http://www.igda.org/why-crunch-modes-doesnt-work-six-lessons

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