That's the thing - if you have plenty of vacations and a short work week, then you tend to actually do work during your working hours. If you're in the workplace for 70 hours every week all year, then naturally you can't do useful work for most of these hours. Which is why it looks like you never work as you have to rest at work.

[–] buzziebee@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'd rather have 30 incredibly intense and productive hours than 60 completely chill no stress do a little of this a little of that hours.

My old job was 60-70 hours of incredibly intense productivity (was working for a Japanese corporation) and I learnt at a rate well above what other workers would due to the intensity, but then I had a breakdown from burn out. Keeping that tempo for fewer hours is the best of both worlds. Employers need to be focused on output rather than time logged.

[–] Noughmad@programming.dev 4 points 1 year ago

I agree. There's also that benefit you forgot to mention that you have 30 hours more free time to spend however you like, instead of somewhat "free" time that you have to spend at work.