Comment by Milica Maksimović on "Do you think an 8 hour workday is too much?"

~6 hour work day is reasonable, and most people can actually give 100% then. Anything over that and the motivation to push harder really just plummets. Especially working for a corporate enterprise or something that is just a "job". But often one can push those hours a little bit if they're super motivated over something, but even then that starts to turn into burn out at a pretty quick pace. Usually it only takes about 6-12 months for someone to really have the burn out kick in and the apathy just builds up until they're giving about 20% for an 8 hour day, mostly sitting around and twiddling their thumbs while chatting around the water cooler.

Simply, keep the work day to about 6 hours and things are remarkably better for everybody involved over the long term. :)

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