"We overwhelmingly choose to work the greatest number of hours we can sustainably tolerate (somewhere between 40 and 60 hours for most people)"
I'm doing that short-term, directly for cash at the moment. Then I'm going to take a month off.
Most of my working life (12 years so far) has been working at the 37 hour mark, mostly because that's what was asked of me at work. There might have been some benefit in working longer hours voluntarily, but I would not have been directly compensated for them and I have a life to live outside of work.
I know this is the privilege of the skilled European tech-worker, and thank god I am one.
I'm doing that short-term, directly for cash at the moment. Then I'm going to take a month off.
Most of my working life (12 years so far) has been working at the 37 hour mark, mostly because that's what was asked of me at work. There might have been some benefit in working longer hours voluntarily, but I would not have been directly compensated for them and I have a life to live outside of work.
I know this is the privilege of the skilled European tech-worker, and thank god I am one.