In Silicon Valley, Working 9 to 5 Is for Losers
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In Silicon Valley, Working 9 to 5 Is for Losers
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#2This is one of their favorite reasons for recruiting people without experience: They're unlikely to say no and more unlikely to be married or have familial commitments.
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#3If anyone is looking for start-up ideas, focus on finding ways to give employees more leverage (collective bargaining, etc).
Most of our bosses believe leverage is value (that's why they make the most, they have the most leverage!), so I say we play the game their way. Leverage is the only thing that's important to them, so let's all go out and get us some leverage. Wage slaves unite lol.
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#4Funny how this is a Silicon Valley article that doesn't mention Google at all. Most of the people I know who work there do 9 to 5, sometimes 9 to 6, rarely 9 to 7.
Guess they're all "losers" then.
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#5No, the losers are the idiots putting in long hours for the same pay as the 9 to 5 guys.
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#6Funny how this is a Silicon Valley article that doesn't mention Google at all. Most of the people I know who work there do 9 to 5, sometimes 9 to 6, rarely 9 to 7. Guess they're all "losers" then.
I know a couple who do a 10 to 5.
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#7In my anecdotal experience perusing glassdoor and talking to various tech company recruiters (as I job hunt), a lot of companies these days (in the valley and elsewhere) seem to be touting "good work life balance" and "9-5 hours" as a selling point.
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#8No doubt we talk about it that way.
Not every company is like that. LinkedIn was famously 40-hour weeks in the early days. I just started at a company that's pretty aggressively work-life balanced. We're no doubt a startup (VC funding, high growth, the whole 9 yards), but we just don't believe that 80 hour weeks translates to the best work. You are first and foremost your own caretaker, and it's probably bad if you're in the office 8-6 and working at home.
Culture matters, and it's different at every company. Don't let what's said on Twitter fool you into thinking it's the same everywhere.
[x-posted from the other thread]
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#10There are so many stories out there of people who busted their ass, ignored family, sacrificed all their free time for a startup only to be completely shafted. Workers are starting to wise up to the idea, and start asking what they get for putting their life on hold in order to make someone else rich. And they're not really getting a compelling answer.