I recently took a job at a startup. It's a good job, has a nice base pay, and the hour expectation is very reasonable. On average we're all working 3 to 5 hours a day. Our product in theory can help reduce burnout provided that leadership teams don't tell people to fill the time they spent doing the task our product replaces with some other craptastic task.
Anyway…just got off the phone with someone at a major fintech company. They work 80 to 90 hours a week. If leadership actually invested in what my company does, she could get 50 hours of her week back. She said if I could get my foot in the door and actually talk some sense into their leadership, everyone she works with would be so much happier. But she said that leadership operates under the argument of; “If I had to do it so do you.”
That's a really trash argument. I figured that 3 years removed from COVID we would be doing so much better in these departments. Apparently not.