40 Hours is Enough

Too Long; Didn't Read

I recently read an <a href="http://brianknapp.me/programmer-60-80-hour-weeks/">article</a> by Brian Knapp dismantling the idea that there’s a benefit to getting programmers to work more than 40 hours a week. The gist is that as the hours worked increase, so does burnout. Since there’s probably not enough work to fill more than 40 <em>productive</em> hours a week, what you get is a bunch of unhappy employees who try their best to look busy while quietly resenting the company they work&nbsp;for.