Interesting Links for 16-03-2012

[andrewducker]

• Working more than 40 hours per week will quickly make you less productive. Do not do it for more than a couple of weeks.
  (tags: work time sleep business )
• Guidance on how to fill out the equal marriage consultation for England/Wales/NI.
  (tags: lgbt marriage law uk )
• A fascinating look at the infighting going on at high levels in China
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Comments

[artkouros]

I agree that working OT makes you tired and stupid, but not necessarily less productive. If you do the same thing all day, then yes. If you spend your days in unproductive meetings and your OT after hours doing actual work, then no. Wait - it's meetings that make you less productive!

[andrewducker]

If I spend 8 hours in meetings then the quality of any work I do after that is _definitely_ lower.

[octopoid_horror]

The extra bits I do that turn my 35 hours week into a 40-45 hour week are the bits when I'm most productive, regrettably.

[andrewducker]

Sorry, yes. it may well be that the extra bits I do (like today, where I'm going in for 4 hours) are more productive than the bits I spend in meetings.

But they're still less productive than when I'm working a 40-hour week (or less).

[makyo]

Guidance on how to fill out the equal marriage consultation for England/Wales/NI.
Thanks for this. I'd found questions 5 (option of religious same-sex marriage) and 8 (opposite-sex civil partnerships) ambiguously worded. In the end, I answered in the way that seemed to represent my opinions (yes to both) and added a clarificatory note in the "any other comments" box at the end.

[marrog]

Wow, I think the England & Wales consultation might be even worse put together than ours was! Most of the questions are directed at a tiny fraction of the population!

[octopoid_horror]

Because some people believe face to face meetings are essential for real communication, and others secretly (or unconsciously) like the power they have to make other people travel for meetings, or feel important because they travel for meetings. SWaiting for a flight in an airport early in the morning is always hilarious when you hear managers and directors making phone calls where they are very clearly just doing it in order to let other people in the airport know how important they are because they are working while not at work, and to let people at the other end of the phone know that they are important because they're in an airport, travelling rather than sitting in the office!

[octopoid_horror]

Research by the US military has shown that losing just one hour of sleep per night for a week will cause a level of cognitive degradation equivalent to a .10 blood alcohol level. Worse: most people who’ve fallen into this state typically have no idea of just how impaired they are.

This is both funny and sad considering that the military expects/demands that soldiers carry out their job without sleep. Don't worry, I'm sure they do just fine. Juuuuuuust fine.