Why? Fuck me, that’s like a 12 hour day over a 5 day week. No-one is doing productive 12 hours day for very long, so he’s basically just arguing for an adult version of fucking daycare here.

Classic correlation v. causation. The sweet spot for productivity is believing in and wanting to do your work. For some people, this motivates them to spend tons of time working. For some people, this boueys then to high productivity even while exercising great work life balance and avoiding burnout.

Google used to know this, and spend huge amounts of effort and resources on trust, enjoyment, innovation. Now that's something to find at other companies.

I honestly think it's more like 30. If we're all just making numbers up.

60 hours is the sweet spot for maximal control over your employees life with only the normal amount of suicides.

Spoken to someone who might work 60 minutes a week.

He can get fucked by his 60 hour work week. Sideways.

what a useless clown

double the salary is also a very sweet spot for productivity

Lol. Yeah. Shut up. Its not. Proven not.

If you are a CEO, sure. But if you are not then it's quite the opposite.

If only these capitalist pigs could put themselves in the shoes of others.

What a pile of human garbage.

60/5=12/day 8/day for sleep Let's say it takes me an hour each way to get to and from the office. Maybe 1hr for dinner

Now I have 1 hour/day to do everything else I need to do? How did this guy invent Google?

Outside of the google office would be a sweet spot for a guillotine.

Last summer there were a bunch of stories reporting findings that companies that experimented with a 4-day work week saw productivity gains over the traditional 5-day, so this billionaire’s opinion sounds out of alignment with reality

Hey Brin, kindly go fuck yourself, you out-of-tpuch ass.

Irony alert: pushing humans harder while building AI to replace them—brilliant strategy, Sergey.

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It's burnout waiting to happen

So? Then you fire them and hire fresh meat.

Humans are replaceable, no?

/S, of course

We are slowly shifting to a 4x8=32h work week here. 60h long term has nothing to do with productivity anymore.

Google

---Do most harm---

Well, if Sergey Brin wants to work 60 hour weeks, be my guest. Sounds like a good idea for the CEO class, since they should really justify what they're paid.

Has there ever been a better call to eat the rich?!

I'm sorry that Sergey Brin apparently doesn't have hobbies or family/friends that care about him, but 60 is still wrong. We have computers and work multipliers and have perfected efficiency... We don't need to spend the majority of our lives toiling anymore! Some would argue against 40, but at least that gives a balanced workday: 8 hours of work, 8 hours of sleep, 8 hours of leisure. And I say all that as someone who actually likes their job...

Did that guy ever work anywhere else?

So nice of him to support the abuse of his employees for his personal gain.

Rich asshole says out of touch moronic thing. More at 7.

Kicking Sergey Brin in the teeth and working 30 hours a week is max productivity.

Sergi can eat donkey dick.

"Arbeit macht frei."

Ahh, the typical manager misconception. Nope. Long work hours don't equal high productivity.

But I can understand that misconception, as it takes those people up there many more hours to get a single useful idea compared to those under them who actually do the work and earn the money.

Does he hate social relationships and his family or something?

Only if it's for two people - 30 hours each!

As a sufferer of Long Covid, Sergey Brin can suck my ass. Any company can deem themselves lucky if I manage to make 40 a week. There's more to life than work, and it's not like they'll pay you for those extra 20 hours.

Hurry! Before they change president and figure out all the data we stole from everyone during this glorious time!

JFC, and with the assholes in the government in collusion with these fuckers, they are likely to be able to make it mandatory.

The 4 day workweek is likely more optimal for humans, at least until we are post-scarcity.

people like this shouldn't be allowed to finish their sentences on their own terms. it should be cut short by an extreme force.

I thought 6 hours per day were best? Also, where I work, we’ve gone through voluntary overtime, working 60 hour weeks. People start to look like zombies and were more prone to mistakes by week three. It is simply not sustainable.

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Hitting Brin in the balls repeatedly would increase my happiness.

I’d work work 60 hours a week if I was going to get paid the millions they make but I’m not doing that work just to make someone else rich.