{"id":72775,"date":"2014-11-20T17:42:11","date_gmt":"2014-11-20T22:42:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rbachnet.wwwmi3-ss40.a2hosted.com\/index.php\/"},"modified":"2022-08-26T13:25:47","modified_gmt":"2022-08-26T17:25:47","slug":"working-endless-hours-does-not-make-you-a-hero-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rbach.net\/index.php\/working-endless-hours-does-not-make-you-a-hero-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Working Endless Hours Does Not Make You a Hero"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20140717160826\/http:\/\/medicmagic.net\/why-women-panics-faster-when-hearing-bad-news.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-103857 size-medium\" title=\"Working Endless Hours Does Not Make You a Hero\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rbach.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/panic-woman.jpg?resize=150%2C100&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Working Endless Hours Does Not Make You a Hero\" width=\"150\" height=\"100\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rbach.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/panic-woman.jpg?resize=150%2C100&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rbach.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/panic-woman.jpg?resize=75%2C50&amp;ssl=1 75w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rbach.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/panic-woman.jpg?w=424&amp;ssl=1 424w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>Working <strong>endless hours<\/strong> may be nothing more than a <strong>waste of time<\/strong>. The BYOD and Cloud phenomenons have <strong>blurred the line between work and home<\/strong> with the goal of <strong>greater productivity<\/strong>. However, data from <a title=\"Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development\" href=\"https:\/\/www.oecd.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia noopener noreferrer\">OECD<\/a> and the <em><a title=\"Economist\" href=\"http:\/\/www.economist.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Economist<\/a><\/em> say just the opposite. <em><a title=\"Entrepreneur\" href=\"http:\/\/www.entrepreneur.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Entrepreneur<\/a><\/em> reports that <a title=\"Germany\" href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?ll=52.5166666667,13.3833333333&amp;spn=10.0,10.0&amp;q=52.5166666667,13.3833333333 (Germany)&amp;t=h\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"geolocation noopener noreferrer\">Germany<\/a> has the shortest work week, with employees averaging <strong>35 hours a week<\/strong> at the office, but it also the <strong>most productive<\/strong> nation in the world.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Winding Down the Work Week\" href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20161116060909\/http:\/\/blog.pgi.com\/2014\/07\/winding-work-week-infographic\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">According<\/a> to the cloud-based software company <a title=\"PGI\" href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20230925195746\/https:\/\/www.pgi.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">PGi<\/a> which created this infographic, the <strong><a title=\"Marginal utility\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Marginal_utility\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia noopener noreferrer\">marginal benefit<\/a> of each hour worked<\/strong> on a country\u2019s <a title=\"Gross domestic product\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Gross_domestic_product\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia noopener noreferrer\">gross domestic product<\/a><strong> declines pretty steadily<\/strong> as the number of hours increases.<\/p>\n<p><strong>How many hours a week do you work?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.entrepreneur.com\/article\/235684\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-103860\" title=\"Working Endless Hours Does Not Make You a Hero\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rbach.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/not_a_hero.jpg?resize=300%2C1087&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Working Endless Hours Does Not Make You a Hero\" width=\"300\" height=\"1087\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rbach.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/not_a_hero.jpg?resize=283%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 283w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rbach.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/not_a_hero.jpg?resize=21%2C75&amp;ssl=1 21w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rbach.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/not_a_hero.jpg?resize=41%2C150&amp;ssl=1 41w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rbach.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/not_a_hero.jpg?resize=768%2C2784&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rbach.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/not_a_hero.jpg?w=818&amp;ssl=1 818w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h6>Related articles<\/h6>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fastcompany.com\/3033142\/the-future-of-work\/how-the-average-american-work-week-compares-to-the-rest-of-the-world\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">How The Average American Work Week Compares To The Rest Of The World<\/a> (fastcompany.com)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em><a title=\"Ralph Bach\" href=\"https:\/\/rbach.net\/index.php\/new-resume\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Ralph Bach<\/a>\u00a0has been in IT long enough to know better and has blogged from his\u00a0<a title=\"Bach Seat\" href=\"https:\/\/rbach.net\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Bach Seat<\/a> about IT, careers, and anything else that catches his attention since 2005. 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Email the Bach Seat\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:\/\/bach.seat@gmail.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Working less &#8211; Marginal benefit of each hour worked on gross domestic product declines as the number of hours increase.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[2292,32,1242,173,2261,2266,2309],"class_list":["post-72775","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","tag-2292","tag-business","tag-byod","tag-cloud-computing","tag-gross-domestic-product","tag-overtime","tag-sleep"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rbach.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72775","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rbach.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rbach.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rbach.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rbach.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72775"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/rbach.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72775\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":129528,"href":"https:\/\/rbach.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72775\/revisions\/129528"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rbach.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72775"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rbach.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72775"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rbach.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72775"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}