If you ask a manager to hold an hour's meeting spread across 6 hours in 10 min slots you will get the funniest looks.
Yet developers are expected to complete a few hours of coding task in between an endless barrage of meetings, quick and short pings & syncups over slack/zoom.
For the few times I've had to work on the weekends at home, I've observed that the difference in the quality of work done over a (distraction free) weekend is much better than that of a hectic weekday.
> If you ask a manager to hold an hour's meeting spread across 6 hours in 10 min slots you will get the funniest looks.
This is a great analogy I haven’t heard it before. They think it’s like that quick work where you check your calendar and throw in your two cents on an email chain. It’s not. Much more like holding a meeting.
The horrible trap of this is being able to get so little work done during the day, that you end up risking any but possibly all of your otherwise free time compensating for some company's idiotic structure, and this is a catastrophe
Yet developers are expected to complete a few hours of coding task in between an endless barrage of meetings, quick and short pings & syncups over slack/zoom.
For the few times I've had to work on the weekends at home, I've observed that the difference in the quality of work done over a (distraction free) weekend is much better than that of a hectic weekday.