how long and how many days a week do you think ER doctors work. i think they're right to want to just fucking chill. i want a well rested doctor treating me and not one who just pulled a 24 hour shift and then a 12 and another 12 before another 24, with only a few hours of legally mandated breaks inbetween.
Yeah some of us want a 30-hour work week because we've read the experimental research trials. People aren't any less productive and they are happier and less stressed and feel less leisure time pressure.
It turns out that working 40 hours a week is just too much. Full stop, no ifs ands or buts. The tiredness and loss of focus it induces is enough that you're about 25% less productive per hour when you're on a 40-hour work week, and so the extra 10 hours a week cancels out. This effect is a little bit more pronounced for white collar work and a little bit less pronounced for blue collar work, but there's functionally not enough of a difference to care. And people who are working more than that actually become less productive in total.
The thing is that you don't immediately gain the benefits of being fully rested and focused by working less on just one day, or even one week. It can even take months to settle into the pattern of higher productivity per working hour, and that's frankly miraculously quick given that full burnout can take years to recover from. And during that transition you will be less immediately productive. Particularly for people who pride themselves on being hard workers and how much overtime they put in, the notion that working less can get just as much done can feel absurd and even insulting. Because it seems so painfully obvious that you get less done when you do less, and any experiences of being invited to do so feel like they back that up.
But it's true. We are all simply working more than we need to, pointlessly, to no benefit at all. It is an appallingly pointless waste of human life.
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Also, I don’t actually care if someone is less productive working 30 hours a week or 20 hours a week. We do not need endless productivity and it’s bad for the earth and bad for people. We would be completely fine if everyone was half as productive. Literally we would be better off. It does not matter that a 30 hour work week is as productive as a 40 hour work week. Reject that framing!
I mean that does matter actually, quite a bit. I, personally, would probably work 30 hours at my job even if given the opportunity to work less, because I find the work fulfilling and meaningful. Not out of some abstract need to be productive, but because I think it's work worth doing and it interests and engages me. Very little reliably keeps my attention enough to stave off the screaming ADHD malaise, but my work does. So it matters because there's a lot of people like me, who for whatever reason do want to be particularly productive in some regard. And the fact that 30 hours is just as productive as 40 matters a lot when talking to them actually.
There's also a ton of people who have swallowed propaganda about how moral value is found in working unpaid overtime all the time, and yeah they need to reject the framing that we should be optimizing productivity.
Also I think the fact that we spend 10+ hours a week wasted for absolutely no purpose at all, no matter the value of your work for other's welfare, to be abhorrent in a way that's even more disgusting than if the undesired work was producing something of value we didn't strictly need.
I'm also just gonna go ahead and say that hearing an ER doctor say "I want to work less hours" doesn't make me think "oh no, this ER doctor is a lazy ass", it make me think "Oh no, the people who are supposed to take care of people when they're having the worst day of their lives are also not getting enough rest", and that sounds. really bad. I would like my ER doctor to work maybe even less then 30 hours a week because i want to know that someone working a critically important and extremely stressful job is getting plenty of off time to rest and fully recover, as well as probably some counseling and consistent mental health support to make sure they're not being pushed (or pushing themselves) too hard.
[id: tweet by cabral @ doctor_cabral: It's really too bad because we could have built a world where we work a little bit but mostly just hang out and have a good time but instead we got this shithole
reply by Gary Puto @ puto_gary73935: Somehow I stumbled into "lazy ass" Twitter.
reply by cabral @ doctor_cabral: lol l'm an ER doctor. What do you do? end id]
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