Comments on: Techies may have to work Saturdays also – Silicon India news item

By: TJ

TJ — Tue, 21 Aug 2007 11:19:47 +0000

working on saturdays is a ridiculous idea…. First of all, the average IT employee works for more than the stipulaated 40 hrs / week. They put in an average of 10-11 hrs a day. Hence making them work for 6 hrs on saturdays ,(which in actuality may be 9-10 hrs again) will increase the pressure on them tremendously… leading to a discontentment and resentment.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 31 Jul 2007 17:46:00 +0000

I agree with you… Since we are anyways working for that long, increasing the work hours to 50 will not help. But if officially they count working hours and include Saturday also then we will be in office late night on saturday also, irrespective of official hours (in turn screwing our sunday).
Think about it…

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 20 Jul 2007 03:56:00 +0000

I agree with you on the need to measure the value that we pack in. The problem is how do we measure it?
Take a look at my post Measuring Developer Productivity too
Also, I don’t know if increasing the official work hours to 50 will help in any way. Most people I know work for that long anyway.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 20 Jul 2007 01:50:00 +0000

Working 50 hours would be fruitful for the company if the client’s is willing to pay for the extra 10 hours work. In many companies, managers do not allow more than 40 hours even if the chap worked 50 hours!