In the note, shared internally and viewed by the New York Times, Brin urges staff working on Google’s Gemini AI projects to put in long hours to help the company lead the race in artificial general intelligence (AGI).
Some have praised Brin’s commitment to pushing the company’s success, but others argue that his approach reflects an outdated and harmful mindset.
“The hustle-centric 60-hour week isn’t productivity—it’s burnout waiting to happen,” wrote workplace mental health educator Catherine Eadie in a post shared by LinkedIn’s news editors.
Others said they feel that hard work is essential for success, with a COO of a business analytics business writing, “Brin is just being honest—successful people have always put in long hours."
60/5=12/day 8/day for sleep Let’s say it takes me an hour each way to get to and from the office. Maybe 1hr for dinner
Now I have 1 hour/day to do everything else I need to do? How did this guy invent Google?
If you are a CEO, sure. But if you are not then it’s quite the opposite.
If only these capitalist pigs could put themselves in the shoes of others.
As a sufferer of Long Covid, Sergey Brin can suck my ass. Any company can deem themselves lucky if I manage to make 40 a week. There’s more to life than work, and it’s not like they’ll pay you for those extra 20 hours.
60 hours is the sweet spot for maximal control over your employees life with only the normal amount of suicides.
JFC, and with the assholes in the government in collusion with these fuckers, they are likely to be able to make it mandatory.
The 4 day workweek is likely more optimal for humans, at least until we are post-scarcity.
Hurry! Before they change president and figure out all the data we stole from everyone during this glorious time!
Did that guy ever work anywhere else?
Spoken to someone who might work 60 minutes a week.
He can get fucked by his 60 hour work week. Sideways.
Classic correlation v. causation. The sweet spot for productivity is believing in and wanting to do your work. For some people, this motivates them to spend tons of time working. For some people, this boueys then to high productivity even while exercising great work life balance and avoiding burnout.
Google used to know this, and spend huge amounts of effort and resources on trust, enjoyment, innovation. Now that’s something to find at other companies.
Hey Brin, kindly go fuck yourself, you out-of-tpuch ass.
Why? Fuck me, that’s like a 12 hour day over a 5 day week. No-one is doing productive 12 hours day for very long, so he’s basically just arguing for an adult version of fucking daycare here.
Well yeah. If you’re at the office that long, you’ll be too tired to do anything else like protest, organize, live life, etc.
…or 8.6 hours a day 7 days a week with no days off. There’s no way to math this that isn’t “fuck you, you don’t deserve a life outside of working to replace yourself with AI.”
Or 10 hour days 6 days a week, only so the “responsible” employees can go to church.
Ew.
Specially developers, you’re going to spend the first 3 hours of work every day, fixing all the shitty code wrote in the 3 last hours of the preview day.
Yep. If you want max productivity from devs, it’s salary and ad hoc.
Do your work when the fuck ever. Just get it done.
Depends on your job, this is definitely true, specially on Fridays. No one wants to work on Friday, productivity is lowest on Fridays.
Kicking Sergey Brin in the teeth and working 30 hours a week is max productivity.
So nice of him to support the abuse of his employees for his personal gain.
It’s not about productivity. Productivity drops exponentially when people are tired. It’s about crushing the human spirit.
what a useless clown
At this point, it’s an insult to clowns.
fair, “clown” as in the study of physical comedy is genuinely hilarious
Not true. They know exactly what theyre doing to extract wealth from the workers.
Yes. The rich prefer slavery if they can get away with it .
Even if it’s less efficient than better treatment of the workforce
Mba say the darnest things
Hitting Brin in the balls repeatedly would increase my happiness.
