From personal experience: yes I know people who follow this schedule. I don't personally. I will work 12+ hours straight if I really need to crunch, but generally working like that negatively affects the quality of your output, and I don't see a general improvement in the quality of others when they work like this.
From personal experience: yes I know people who follow this schedule. I don't personally. I will work 12+ hours straight if I really need to crunch, but generally working like that negatively affects the quality of your output, and I don't see a general improvement in the quality of others when they work like this.
996 are existed for a long long time. Heck I've done 12 12 7 during my teen years in summer vacation.
It's not a big deal. It's just startups doing their thing and the press capitalizing on views with headlines.
https://archive.ph/w9U0D
Been in SV culture most of my life. I do think by and large this only existed around 2004ish to 2010ish.
These days it's a new form of work virtue signalling mostly created by people that do something more like 3 3 18 3 1 8 0
Proving once again that we are a fad-driven industry of trend-chasers who have no clear understanding of what generates value.
I keep ahead of everyone by working 9 days a week, 96 hours a day.
Luxury!
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=VKHFZBUTA4k