Google co-founder says 60-hour workweek the ‘sweet spot’ for productivity
Google co-founder says 60-hour workweek the ‘sweet spot’ for productivity
Sergey Brin, the co-founder of Google, claims that a 60-hour workweek is the “sweet spot” for productivity in a recent memo sent to employees.
In the note, shared internally and viewed by the New York Times, Brin urges staff working on Google’s Gemini AI projects to put in long hours to help the company lead the race in artificial general intelligence (AGI).
Some have praised Brin’s commitment to pushing the company’s success, but others argue that his approach reflects an outdated and harmful mindset.
“The hustle-centric 60-hour week isn’t productivity—it’s burnout waiting to happen,” wrote workplace mental health educator Catherine Eadie in a post shared by LinkedIn’s news editors.
Others said they feel that hard work is essential for success, with a COO of a business analytics business writing, “Brin is just being honest—successful people have always put in long hours."
Sergi can eat donkey dick.
Fuck work
Outside of the google office would be a sweet spot for a guillotine.
I honestly think it's more like 30. If we're all just making numbers up.
Lol. Yeah. Shut up. Its not. Proven not.
It is if your an ineffective manager trying to justify their salary in a time of economic crisis.
Rich asshole says out of touch moronic thing. More at 7.
double the salary is also a very sweet spot for productivity
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Does he hate social relationships and his family or something?
Our? Yes.
His, probably not.
I have found out that my productivity goes down after about 6 hours of work. And even if the productivity is seemingly the same (e.g. when I worked at cigarettes factory), I unsurprisingly made more mistakes when tired. Although I must say I am more tired when I do boring shit (or nothing lol) in office job than on production line, but it's just me.
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?
You don't have staff to clean your house, cook your food, take care of your kids, pay your bills?
What are you some kind of poor?
You sleep at the office or work 6 or 7 days. People aren't often doing 60 hour weeks by working 12x5 and then 2 off.
Edit: Google even has those sleeping pods!
Ah, my bad.
So just have to do 50% more work for no additional pay, give up one of the two days I get to spend with my kids and require me to incur additional expenditure on childcare.
And he's suggesting this to quite possibly the most employable software developers on the planet? Kinda sounds like a fucking moron.
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.
60 hours is the sweet spot for maximal control over your employees life with only the normal amount of suicides.
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.
Did that guy ever work anywhere else?
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.
Hurry! Before they change president and figure out all the data we stole from everyone during this glorious time!
Spoken to someone who might work 60 minutes a week.
He can get fucked by his 60 hour work week. Sideways.
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.
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.
Well yeah. If you’re at the office that long, you’ll be too tired to do anything else like protest, organize, live life, etc.
Specially developers, you're going to spend the first 3 hours of work every day, fixing all the shitty code wrote in the 3 last hours of the preview day.
Yep. If you want max productivity from devs, it's salary and ad hoc.
Do your work when the fuck ever. Just get it done.
Depends on your job, this is definitely true, specially on Fridays. No one wants to work on Friday, productivity is lowest on Fridays.
Hey Brin, kindly go fuck yourself, you out-of-tpuch ass.
Kicking Sergey Brin in the teeth and working 30 hours a week is max productivity.
what a useless clown
So nice of him to support the abuse of his employees for his personal gain.
It's not about productivity. Productivity drops exponentially when people are tired. It's about crushing the human spirit.
Hitting Brin in the balls repeatedly would increase my happiness.
My ass it is. We're going the other direction.
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.
It's beyond just making millions for someone else, it's about literally building their replacements.
In the note, shared internally and viewed by the New York Times, Brin urges staff working on Google’s Gemini AI projects to put in long hours to help the company lead the race in artificial general intelligence (AGI).
They want an AGI that will do all the work "for free" and they don't have to worry about pesky human workers who want things like "human rights" anymore.
Most big players in the AI field have already said that they are not going to reach the goals they set for environmental impact by 2030. The "for free" part simply means that Earth will become unlivable for human beings sooner
Yep, just plug 'em in and they'll work 24x7x52 without a complaint. That's the goal.
"The race" to AGI is just the race to unemployment and complete subservience to the TechBro super-rich and their ilk.
Let’s see, can’t grow your own food, can’t make your own clothes, can’t fix your own home, have to pay property taxes no matter what, have to pay for health insurance or you die…
They have a lot of people between a rock and a hard place. Might even be all of us.
Please join my TED talk on "Why whip is a more efficient motivational tool than bonuses?"
There's 182,502 employees at Google.
Maybe if Brin wants to work hard, he can do all the work at 60 hours a week himself, since he's so fucking smart.
That's only 10,950,120 hours a week, Brin. Those are rookie numbers! You can do it yourself, right? Right?
You wouldn't be sitting on your ass doing nothing demanding others do all the work, right? Right??
Narrator: Brin was indeed sitting on his ass doing nothing.
Also, for context, 60 hours a week divided by 7 days a week is 8.6 hours a day with no days off or 6 ten hour days with one day off or 5 twelve hour days with two days off.
often these fucks do work 60–100 hour weeks because they are soulless, friendless, loveless, hobbyless people with no interior life or social life.
Nah, they count shit like going to the gym for two hours or having a three-hour-three-martini "business lunch" as part of their "work week" so those numbers are way overinflated. They count every little thing they do that they tell us "isn't working" (like eating) as "work" when it comes to their own schedules.
There's middle managers who really work like that but its because they hate their home lives, their wives, their children.
60-hour workmonth? Sign me up!
Have fun paying out overtime in developed countries
Assuming overtime pay and other employee benefits aren't completely gutted
That's why I specified developed countries. Countries stuck in the 1800s don't count.
They won’t pay overtime. Obviously.
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