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Some have praised Brin’s commitment to pushing the company’s success, but others argue that his approach reflects an outdated and harmful mindset.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."
I’d be down to work the 60hrs if it was voluntary overtime. But constantly? Probably not.
We are slowly shifting to a 4x8=32h work week here. 60h long term has nothing to do with productivity anymore.
I dream of my company going to that schedule, but I don’t think they ever will. It’s great to see other companies shifting that way though :)
“Fuck productivity! You’re my bitch and I’m here to show it!”
Hey Brin, kindly go fuck yourself, you out-of-tpuch ass.
Kicking Sergey Brin in the teeth and working 30 hours a week is max productivity.
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
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.
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.
60/5=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?
You sleep at the office or work 6 or 7 days. People aren’t often doing 60 hour weeks by working 12x5 and then 2 off.
Edit: Google even has those sleeping pods!
Ah, my bad.
So just have to do 50% more work for no additional pay, give up one of the two days I get to spend with my kids and require me to incur additional expenditure on childcare.
And he’s suggesting this to quite possibly the most employable software developers on the planet? Kinda sounds like a fucking moron.
Kids? They don’t want you. They want childless people who they can work for the 60h or more a week.
This. The ageism in the IT industry is legendary. The joke that dumbass Big Balls/ The Carver character (same thing) said about the other being 27 (like that was ancient) is very much a thing.
And they want to blame you for not having kids.
You don’t have staff to clean your house, cook your food, take care of your kids, pay your bills?
What are you some kind of poor?
What a pile of human garbage.
Lmao dude trying to claw back some relevance with bait.
Sergei Brin has not accomplished anything since Pagerank and it must make him feel very small especially since his ass got dumped quite recently.
Sad little billionaire.
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ahahahaha!
What an idjit.
Does he hate social relationships and his family or something?
Our? Yes.
His, probably not.
Google
—Do most harm—
double the salary is also a very sweet spot for productivity
