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I love how prideful some are about their stupid amount of worked hours per week. You do realize that you are boasting about wasting away your life?
Anyone working over 40 hours is letting somebody get away with improving their project’s margin and getting a bonus and/or covering up a terrible job of planning (or possibly a failure to plan at all) and getting a bonus.
Anything above 40 is unreasonable. Just because it is commonplace does not make it necessary or even recommended. Delegate more people! Your teams will be happier and you will have life outside work.
Wtf, 60 is a light week. 65 is standard, 75 is long and 80+ is brutal. (5 days).
Cuz letting bad planning or misuse of resources should be the norm/acceptable? M2. Looks like we know whats wrong with agency managers
All you people who make this Normal are the problem. Current SCs and Ms without stockholm syndrome, how many happy SMs have you met? Happy partners? Do u really want to be like that at that level? Its insanity.
70 in a 5 day period is threshold
No hard and fast rule, once a while even 80 hr weeks are okay. As long it's limited to once or twice a year. But 50hr weeks for extended time can become too much
Ignoring the quality of life and heath issues around working long hours, your job as a consultant is a thinking one. You’re not digging ditches, you are attempting to come up with creative solutions to problems.
The quality of work done starts to drop off at 40 hours and there’s a big cliff at 60. It’s time to think about long hours as a negative not as some machismo badge of honor. You’ll do better work, you’ll be happier, and you’ll live longer.
Anything over 55 for more than 2 weeks I usually raise (lightly or strongly) depending on the project - either for push back on client, or getting additional resources.
Thank you all!! I’ve been feeling completely crushed by 12-14 hour days M-R, but didn’t know if my expectations/sleep needs were just totally off/unique - glad to hear I’m not alone.
60 is what I consider reasonable - and good. 65 is my ideal cap (and what I usually end up working). 70 is where I start to feel really worn.
Anything over 60 hours a week. 45-50 is the norm for me (8-6 PM). 55 is fine here and there as long as it doesn’t repeat. Over 60 to me is unreasonable, given no overtime pay. At that point you’re only de-valuing your own worth by working those hours on a single full time salary.
Looks like we are starting to see why no one has heard of SapientRazorfish...
Honestly, about 24. I really want to win the lottery and be idle rich.
Or firm expectation is 45 billable hours a week under M. With that said, 50 is the norm.
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85 billable in a full week is where I start to lose it
Over 58-60 gets tough