{"id":72,"date":"2005-06-01T16:48:49","date_gmt":"2005-06-01T22:48:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.khaitan.org\/blog\/2005\/06\/why-crunch-mode-doesnt-work-40-hour-week-is-king\/"},"modified":"2005-06-01T16:48:49","modified_gmt":"2005-06-01T22:48:49","slug":"why-crunch-mode-doesnt-work-40-hour-week-is-king","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.khaitan.org\/blog\/2005\/06\/why-crunch-mode-doesnt-work-40-hour-week-is-king\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Crunch Mode Doesn&#8217;t Work: 40-hour week is king"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.worklessparty.org\/timework\/chapman.htm\">Sidney Chapman<\/a> proposed the following model to quantify the lost productivity due to overwork:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.worklessparty.org\/timework\/chapman.htm\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.worklessparty.org\/timework\/chapman1.gif\" border=\"0\"><\/a><br \/>\nInterpreted simply, the graph tells us that the productivity &#8220;P&#8221; decreases as the length of the working day increases. Surprisingly, after reaching an inflection point &#8220;b&#8221;, negative productivity kicks in. No wonder, more bugs are introduced in a relatively healthy code to address last-minute fixes.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.igda.org\/articles\/erobinson_crunch.php\">IGDA<\/a> analyzes the pitfalls of the crunch, and why it should be avoided.<br \/>\nThings to do today:<br \/>\n1. Leave for home at 5p<br \/>\n2. Drive at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.freerepublic.com\/focus\/f-news\/1394648\/posts\">55 MPH<\/a><br \/>\n3. Re-run the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0367110\/\">Swades<\/a> CD<br \/>\n4. Take the kids to <a href=\"http:\/\/hiking.adampaul.com\/gallery\/donedwards0303\/page1.html\">Tidelands trail<\/a>, again<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sidney Chapman proposed the following model to quantify the lost productivity due to overwork: Interpreted simply, the graph tells us that the productivity &#8220;P&#8221; decreases as the length of the working day increases. Surprisingly, after reaching an inflection point &#8220;b&#8221;, negative productivity kicks in. No wonder, more bugs are introduced in a relatively healthy code [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6,18],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.khaitan.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.khaitan.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.khaitan.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.khaitan.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.khaitan.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.khaitan.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.khaitan.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.khaitan.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.khaitan.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}