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I have a hard time keeping my equanimity on this one, because the incentives are so awful.
The natural response is, instead of working 8 hours a day 40 days a week, ask your boss to work 15 hours a day two days a week and 10 the other day. Or just go on two 20 hour shifts.
Tax talk
The XP rule is that a team is not allowed to work overtime. The only exception to that rule is that in the last week in a release, a team that is within striking distance of its release goal can sprint to the finish and work overtime.
Robert C. Martin • Agile Principles, Patterns, and Practices in C# (Robert C. Martin Series)
The company should pay for above-normal work one way or another,
Ray Dalio • Principles: Life and Work
Overtime for salaried workers is a figment of the naïve manager’s imagination. Oh, there might be some benefit in a few extra hours worked on Saturday to meet a Monday deadline, but that’s almost always followed by an equal period of compensatory “undertime” while the workers catch up with their lives. Throughout the effort, there will be more or
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That said, I believe work required beyond the scope of the contract (see No. 23, “Expect the Unexpected”) should generally be billed by the hour (at a rate stipulated in the contract).
Bonnie Siegler • Dear Client: This Book Will Teach You How to Get What You Want from Creative People
Au-delà du travail précaire, le rapport aux cadres horaires a été profondément bouleversé. Selon l’observatoire Evrest41, plus d’un tiers des salarié·es français·es en 2018-2019 déclaraient être amené·es à dépasser « assez souvent » ou « très souvent » leurs horaires normaux. La « disponibilité temporelle » apparaît ainsi comme une norme nouvelle
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