Worth Reading – How to avoid the wear and tear of working hard
Darius is right; after you work long enough, your performance drops to the point where you’re not doing anything of value.
I’d spent years thinking more hours meant more output. It doesn’t. It means worse output, followed by a crash.
This is the reality few people in management seem to understand. There is absolutely a point of diminishing returns when it comes to hours worked. And that point is not where you think it is most of the time. It’s not at 16-hour days; it’s probably less than eight hours. You probably get the highest-quality output from your team for a few hours each day, and even that depends on how many meetings and interruptions their brains have to deal with during the day.
Something to keep in mind the next time you have your team working all weekend on a project: they may make more mistakes you have to fix later.
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