If someone did a detailed literature review or had relatively serious evidence, I’d be interested. By default, I’m quite skeptical of your level of confidence in this claims given that they directly contradict my experience and the experience of people I know. (E.g., I’ve done similar things for way longer than 12 weeks.)
To be clear, I think I currently work more like 60 hours a week depending on how you do the accounting, I was just defending 70 hours as reasonable and I think it makes sense to work up to this.
That said, I do think there’s enough evidence that I would bet (not at extreme odds) that it is bad for productivity to have organizational cultures that emphasize working very long hours (say > 60 hours / week), unless you are putting in special care to hire people compatible with that culture. Partly this is because I expect organizations to often be unable to overcome weak priors even when faced with blatant evidence.
If someone did a detailed literature review or had relatively serious evidence, I’d be interested. By default, I’m quite skeptical of your level of confidence in this claims given that they directly contradict my experience and the experience of people I know. (E.g., I’ve done similar things for way longer than 12 weeks.)
To be clear, I think I currently work more like 60 hours a week depending on how you do the accounting, I was just defending 70 hours as reasonable and I think it makes sense to work up to this.
I think the evidence is roughly at “this should be a weakly held prior easily overturned by personal experience”: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/c8EeJtqnsKyXdLtc5/how-long-can-people-usefully-work
That said, I do think there’s enough evidence that I would bet (not at extreme odds) that it is bad for productivity to have organizational cultures that emphasize working very long hours (say > 60 hours / week), unless you are putting in special care to hire people compatible with that culture. Partly this is because I expect organizations to often be unable to overcome weak priors even when faced with blatant evidence.