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atempthrow··on Office distractions could be costing more than $30k per employee each year
If your best and brightest 10% are losing 30k, it's worth asking if the effects are worse (even if it's only 3k per average employee, assuming there are 80% of them, that's a lot of 3k), and if it's worth it for the benefit the least capable or experienced 10% will get.

And please, don't latch on to the mathematical definition of average. I'm talking about a roughly bell curved distribution of talent.

atempthrow··on Office distractions could be costing more than $30k per employee each year
I get about 23 full, uninterrupted minutes in a day.

When I'm in the office, I wonder if my coworkers wait for me to start working just so they can ask me how my day is going or to tell me a joke.

atempthrow··on Tesla factory employees describe grueling work conditions
> > You can't rush or cut corners with something that will kill people.

I worked in Detroit for an automotive company on their software.

I assure you, they rush and cut corners. They iron out the wrinkles in QA and rewrite parts of software a few times. It's not uncommon to have teams (outsourced, the actual employees seem to have reasonable workloads) working 60+ hour weeks regularly on software.