Irony alert: pushing humans harder while building AI to replace them—brilliant strategy, Sergey.
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people like this shouldn't be allowed to finish their sentences on their own terms. it should be cut short by an extreme force.
Has there ever been a better call to eat the rich?!
Only if it's for two people - 30 hours each!
When is technology going to make our lives better?
Sergi can eat donkey dick.
Fuck work
I honestly think it's more like 30. If we're all just making numbers up.
Outside of the google office would be a sweet spot for a guillotine.
Lol. Yeah. Shut up. Its not. Proven not.
It is if your an ineffective manager trying to justify their salary in a time of economic crisis.
double the salary is also a very sweet spot for productivity
Rich asshole says out of touch moronic thing. More at 7.
---Do most harm---
I have found out that my productivity goes down after about 6 hours of work. And even if the productivity is seemingly the same (e.g. when I worked at cigarettes factory), I unsurprisingly made more mistakes when tired. Although I must say I am more tired when I do boring shit (or nothing lol) in office job than on production line, but it's just me.
What a pile of human garbage.
Does he hate social relationships and his family or something?
Our? Yes.
His, probably not.
60/5=12/day 8/day for sleep Let's say it takes me an hour each way to get to and from the office. Maybe 1hr for dinner
Now I have 1 hour/day to do everything else I need to do? How did this guy invent Google?
You don't have staff to clean your house, cook your food, take care of your kids, pay your bills?
What are you some kind of poor?
You sleep at the office or work 6 or 7 days. People aren't often doing 60 hour weeks by working 12x5 and then 2 off.
Edit: Google even has those sleeping pods!
Ah, my bad.
So just have to do 50% more work for no additional pay, give up one of the two days I get to spend with my kids and require me to incur additional expenditure on childcare.
And he's suggesting this to quite possibly the most employable software developers on the planet? Kinda sounds like a fucking moron.
Kids? They don't want you. They want childless people who they can work for the 60h or more a week.
This. The ageism in the IT industry is legendary. The joke that dumbass Big Balls/ The Carver character (same thing) said about the other being 27 (like that was ancient) is very much a thing.
If you are a CEO, sure. But if you are not then it's quite the opposite.
If only these capitalist pigs could put themselves in the shoes of others.
60 hours is the sweet spot for maximal control over your employees life with only the normal amount of suicides.
As a sufferer of Long Covid, Sergey Brin can suck my ass. Any company can deem themselves lucky if I manage to make 40 a week. There's more to life than work, and it's not like they'll pay you for those extra 20 hours.
Did that guy ever work anywhere else?
JFC, and with the assholes in the government in collusion with these fuckers, they are likely to be able to make it mandatory.
The 4 day workweek is likely more optimal for humans, at least until we are post-scarcity.
Hurry! Before they change president and figure out all the data we stole from everyone during this glorious time!
Classic correlation v. causation. The sweet spot for productivity is believing in and wanting to do your work. For some people, this motivates them to spend tons of time working. For some people, this boueys then to high productivity even while exercising great work life balance and avoiding burnout.
Google used to know this, and spend huge amounts of effort and resources on trust, enjoyment, innovation. Now that's something to find at other companies.
Spoken to someone who might work 60 minutes a week.
He can get fucked by his 60 hour work week. Sideways.
Why? Fuck me, that’s like a 12 hour day over a 5 day week. No-one is doing productive 12 hours day for very long, so he’s basically just arguing for an adult version of fucking daycare here.
Well yeah. If you’re at the office that long, you’ll be too tired to do anything else like protest, organize, live life, etc.
My thoughts also. Totalitarian regimes make people work all the time so they're too burned-out and disorientated to rebel.
...or 8.6 hours a day 7 days a week with no days off. There's no way to math this that isn't "fuck you, you don't deserve a life outside of working to replace yourself with AI."
Or 10 hour days 6 days a week, only so the "responsible" employees can go to church.
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Specially developers, you're going to spend the first 3 hours of work every day, fixing all the shitty code wrote in the 3 last hours of the preview day.
Yep. If you want max productivity from devs, it's salary and ad hoc.
Do your work when the fuck ever. Just get it done.
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Hey Brin, kindly go fuck yourself, you out-of-tpuch ass.
Kicking Sergey Brin in the teeth and working 30 hours a week is max productivity.
So nice of him to support the abuse of his employees for his personal gain.
It's not about productivity. Productivity drops exponentially when people are tired. It's about crushing the human spirit.
Hitting Brin in the balls repeatedly would increase my happiness.
My ass it is. We're going the other direction.
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