“The surprising connection between after-hours work and decreased productivity | Slack”
Surprising? This is literally literally what almost every post-WW2 productivity study has told us and has been the consensus in work and organisational psychology since the seventies https://slack.com/intl/en-gb/blog/news/the-surprising-connection-between-after-hours-work-and-decreased-productivity
The important fact you all need to understand about modern management, especially as practiced in tech, is that they do not know their own field.
As in, they do not know what they’re doing.
They read airport books—the management equivalent of a Goop newsletter—and ignore the wealth of research done in organisational and management research.
They are fundamentally and deeply unserious about the craft of management.
@baldur The same can be said of most people I've met over the years.
How many working programmers have read Knuth or SICP?
How many PMs have read Brooks or Fowler?
Instead of management Goop picked up at airport kiosks, these tech ppl get their info from the slashdot's, Stack Overflows, and Hackers Newses on the Web.
I daresay this applies to any human activity.
@faberfedor That’s a good point. Most programmers are also deeply unserious about their craft.
OTOH the people I know who work in retail and are only doing that job to pay the bills take their job more seriously as a practice than 90% of the programmers I know.
So I don’t think it applies to all human activity.
> So I don’t think it applies to all human activity.
We reached that irreconcilable point quickly. 
@baldur @faberfedor Can you elaborate more on “deeply unserious”?
@faberfedor I’m not a PM but I’m curious which Brooks & Fowler you’re referring to.
@zrollyson Frederick Brooks' _The Mythical Man-Month_ and Martin Fowler, et al. _The Agile Manifesto_.
@faberfedor ahhhh certainly recognizable titles, thank you.
@faberfedor @baldur A lot of software developers never read books, I suspect more non readers than other knowledge jobs.