The 60-hour workweek fallacy: Leaders must stop glorifying overwork

The 60-hour workweek fallacy: Leaders must stop glorifying overwork

Google co-founder, Sergey Brin, recently told employees that the ‘sweet spot for productivity’ is a 60-hour work week. Not 40 hours. Not even 50. But 60 hours – a full 12-hour shift, five days a week, at minimum.For an industry that prides itself on innovation, it’s rather staggering that Silicon Valley still insists on clinging to this archaic (and blatantly patriarchal, capitalist) view of work, where managers consistently prioritise optics ov…