Comment Overtime Pay (Score 2, Insightful) 932
As a contractor, I've always felt sorry for the salaried employees who worked tons of overtime while I was limited to 40 hours per week because companies did not want to pay my billing rate for more than 40 hours per week. At my billing rate I made roughly twice what the regular employees made.
The other thing though is I produced more during my 40 hours per week than the poor boobs who worked 60 hours per week. I didn't do more work, but I did very little rework....fixing bugs is all rework and it's productivity = zero.
If you go from a 40 hour work week to a 60 hour work week, more work is produced for 3 weeks. The fourth week results in the same amount of work accomplished as the 40 work week. After that less work is performed in 60 hours than used to be done in 40 hours.
I know that everyone thinks they are doing all kinds of work and they are. But most of the work they do is fixing mistakes they made due to fatigue and has zero productivity.
The other thing though is I produced more during my 40 hours per week than the poor boobs who worked 60 hours per week. I didn't do more work, but I did very little rework....fixing bugs is all rework and it's productivity = zero.
If you go from a 40 hour work week to a 60 hour work week, more work is produced for 3 weeks. The fourth week results in the same amount of work accomplished as the 40 work week. After that less work is performed in 60 hours than used to be done in 40 hours.
I know that everyone thinks they are doing all kinds of work and they are. But most of the work they do is fixing mistakes they made due to fatigue and has zero productivity.
