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Some employers just don't get it that working their people to the bone hinders the quality of the work and can permanently damage their morale.
I recently heard of an interactive firm in SF, can't remember the name, who doesn't let their employees work more than 35 hours a week, and is very flexible about time off and scheduling, letting people come in or not, whatever they are more comfortable with as long as the work gets done. They have regular 'field trips', nights out, retreats, etc. etc...and their employees are stoked. Sounds a lot like what Google does for their employees.
This is SO what I wanna do when I open my own firm one of these days. I'm working now for a firm where the hours are totally schizo, one week it's enforced boredom & NT refreshing x 1,000, then the next week I work late all seven days. It nearly burned me out right after Christmas this year.
I swear I won't treat my people that way when I have my own shop.