How Google's Marissa Mayer Prevents Burnout

Re:How Google's Marissa Mayer Prevents Burnout by blindhippo on Monday June 25, 2012 @11:28AM (#4156922)

I think people are reaacting to the 130 hour note a bit too much. I doubt that was a common occurence, just an outlier week put in there for effect. If what you do for work is your passion (ie: hobby, interest, etc), then you naturally get energy back from the effort you put in. Especially if you see meaningful results back. In such a situation, Mayer's recommendations makes sense.

Working for someone else's passion, idea, etc as talent/expertise doesn't translate the same. The problem with articles like this is that some manager/entreprenure/"idea guy" is going to read this and make it the rule around the office, even for the people it most certainly doesn't apply to.

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Re:How Google's Marissa Mayer Prevents Burnout by nickpinkston on Monday June 25, 2012 @11:36AM (#4156966)

I think this is probably the best interpretation of the piece. Both 1.) that passion restores (this is probably the chief reason to do what you love and not follow big trends blindly BTW), and 2.) that the 130hr was an outliner that was brought out of this piece for dramatic effect.

I'd also love to see a poll for who actually does this desk sleeping stuff. Also, how many of those fell asleep in school often? I just never get sleepy at a desk - exhausted, yes, but not sleepy...

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Re:How Google's Marissa Mayer Prevents Burnout by einhverfr on Tuesday June 26, 2012 @02:51AM (#4160628)

I could see sleeping at my desk, but now for late night stuff, I would really prefer to work from home so I can sleep in my own bed. I dont see why you should have to sleep at your desk. The only reason really to be in the office is to interact with other people and unless everyone else is sleeping at their desks....

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Re:How Google's Marissa Mayer Prevents Burnout by fghh45sdfhr3 on Tuesday June 26, 2012 @11:04AM (#4162230)

The cynic in me sees sleeping at you desk a purely showing of how far you are willing to go for no other reason.

Same with people who eat lunch, often with a work and knife, in their cubicles. It's not about saving a half hour. Maybe you can eat a sandwich and type at the same time. But really, are you saving that much time? And if you are not using your hands, can you not read your email while eating in the cafeteria?

I perceive things like that as work place theater.

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