Re:I Quit: What really goes on at Apple
by _ak on Wednesday April 08, 2015 @05:28PM
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Long crunch times are either a symptom of longterm planning failures (not hired enough people), or it's a deliberate and premeditated attempt to abuse people for cheap labour (why have 10 people do the work when 6 overworked people can do the same job?).
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Re:I Quit: What really goes on at Apple
by tjradcliffe on Thursday April 09, 2015 @12:13AM
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They can't. As the comment before yours pointed out: after about three weeks, those six overworked people are so inefficient that they are getting less done than six people would working regular hours.
Long crunch times (more than two or three weeks) are strong evidence of deliberately abusive management, who are willing to lower productivity below what it would be with a 40-hour work week for the sake of their egos.