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If I was working 16-hour days every day, I'm almost certain I'd be less productive than if I was working 'normal' or even reduced-hour days.
Maybe he's just _that_ energetic, but my ability to get meaningful work done is not an endless fount. Downtime is important.
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The U.S. has nothing like that for salaried employees.
IANAL, but I believe the law is slightly more nuanced than that: http://www.dol.gov/compliance/topics/wages-overtime-pay.htm Overtime doesn't apply to a number of class of workers (including executive, administration, professional, outside sales, and computer related workers). And I believe you could read "professional" as "anyone with a college degree working a white-collar job". Having said that, you're essentially…
Details are in a page linked from the parent (see Learned Professional Exemption):
http://www.dol.gov/whd/regs/compliance/fairpay/fs17d_profess...
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That's exactly what I was thinking while reading this. The person who wrote this article just sees things at the surface, and lacks any insight/depth into the long term consequences. Jack Dorsey may be a freak, but for most people, working this long leads to mental breakdowns, and health problems. It makes for great journalism, but that's about all.
Agreed. I see a lot of articles that scare me lately. They make it sound like business owners should do these things. These stories are the exception, not the rule.
Four-hour work week? Work smarter, not harder? I just don't buy those kind of ideologies if you really believe your idea will change the world. If you want a lifestyle business that provides for you and your next of kin, more power to you. And if that's the route you take, please stop trying to convenience everyone your path to enlightenment is the right way. For awhile, I found that whole movement to be quasi-religi…
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How many hours would they expect him to put in normally?
I don't think it would be the hours as much as the mental focus. When I get done working for 8 hours, I'm usually with my family about an hour and a half before I can mentally break away from what I've been doing all day, and some nights my mind will always be on my tasks no matter how hard I try to refocus. Imagine going from 1 high pressure 8 hours job to another with only a 2 block walk between them, maybe lunch.…
Unlike Dorsey, I have never attempted to maintain that schedule over the long haul, but over periods of time at least, it is not as difficult as it sounds.
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IANAL, but I believe the law is slightly more nuanced than that: http://www.dol.gov/compliance/topics/wages-overtime-pay.htm Overtime doesn't apply to a number of class of workers (including executive, administration, professional, outside sales, and computer related workers). And I believe you could read "professional" as "anyone with a college degree working a white-collar job". Having said that, you're essentially…
I believe "professional" effectively means "salaried". Salaried employees generally don't get overtime. Details are in a page linked from the parent (see Learned Professional Exemption): http://www.dol.gov/whd/regs/compliance/fairpay/fs17d_profess...
At least, that's what I got out of the page.
This is not something to be idolized. Maybe it works for Jack, or maybe it's really exaggerated but there are going to be people reading this that are going to want to try it. I feel bad for those people. Your first instinct is to think that you can't succeed without killing yourself. Then you figure out that if you're killing yourself youve forgotten why you started to begin with.
I think you succeed by being better than enough other people. If there are enough people this good willing to make that sort of sacrifice, it just makes it that much harder for the competition to keep up.
pfft... All I see in the article are 8 unproductive hours every day. Research has shown that humans really don't need 8hrs sleep to work at their optimal best and 4-5 hrs of sleep should be more than enough. He could use those extra 4 hrs every to further develop the companies or even better try launch another startup on the side. Also walking 2 blocks every day between the two companies? That seems a waste of time w…
Citation please? It's my understanding that losing even 1 hour of sleep a night will add up over time and cause all sorts of cognitive problems.
Jack Dorsey does 8 hours at Twitter, 8 hours at Square, 0 hours at life, daily. In other words Jack is free to do whatever he likes, but it is not a good example for most of us. I'll cite a very short poetry by a Sicilian poet called Salvatore Quasimodo: "Everyone stands alone on the heart of the earth / transfixed by a ray of sunshine / and it is suddenly night"
Can anyone from Square or Twitter confirm this work schedule?