Work Life Balance - HRs/week
Work life balance is a hot topic, but I’ve never seen it really quantified. How many working hours per week would you consider to be a reasonable WLB?
30 hours max. Quality > Quantity
I agree on quality > quantity. I’ve heard there are studies that support the viewpoint that there is a diminishing return on productivity at a certain point as well. For a 30 hours work week, do you feel a 250k salary is a reasonable trade for your labor and work produced in that time? Just offering a perspective that a lot of business owners would struggle with that.
Most people already work only 30 hrs anyways just staying at work for 40...
40 is reasonable. Any thing above that a no brainer.
Do you feel Microsoft generally has a good WLB in the way you quantify it (40hrs/week)?
You really only have about 4 hours of high quality work per day
Why do you think that is? - too many meetings? - lack of motivation/interest? - humans are just wired that way? - something else?
If I'm in the middle of a problem, I think I can get a good 5-6 hours of quality work in.
I probably technically average 40 but most weeks are around 35, as low as 30 as high as 60. And yeah when in an office only so many hours of real work can actually be done.
Thanks for your perspective! That must be great to have the flexibility to do the 35-40hr work weeks
My experience at Google and a couple of startups previously was that they cared very little how many hours I worked, only that I got shit done at the expected quality level. If I consistently pumped out 50 hr weeks, I'd like screw up more and be no more productive. (I've seen this happen when I try to do it)
Good work life balance is less than 40. Look at literally any developed European country. Look at their work days and pto. America is just a fucked up pile of shit
I’m not familiar with European country’s work culture. Are they compensated similarly to U.S. counterparts?
No but they don't need to be since they have good culture where they care for their poor and sick. Unlike America
25-30 hrs is a decent wlb.
Seriously? Nothing less than 40?
I mean, standard salaried employees are 40 hours/week in U.S. Since I’m both of those, I used that as the baseline :-)
>30 hrs/week and I start screaming at work!