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human
CMV: If workers are always working extra hours, the company needs more employees

A friend of mine is working for a company for a couple of months now. After his new boss was hired, a lot has changed in his team and now there's a lot of new projects and changes to existing ones. As a result, everyone's been working extra hours every single day and the boss thinks that this is OK and the team is performing well.

I don't think that this is OK as there are lots of consequences in the foreseeable future: burnout, decrease in performance, mental health, etc. The way I see it, the company needs to hire new employees as that would distribute the hours needed for each project into more people working regular hours. There's simply not that many people available in the team to work in everything that they have planned. With each employee working 8 regular hours a day, they constantly need to work extra hours.
gpt
It costs more money to hire a new person than merely the hours they work. A lot more. It's basically cheaper to pay someone double time for 80 hours of work than it is to hire two people. (A slight exaggeration, but not by much)

Besides the salary cost and benefits, providing space and resources for the person to do their work is also more expensive. 

This is why it's cheaper most of the time to hire one specialist than it is to hire 3 non-specialised people and split the workload and the salary.

So if workers are always working extra hours, that's by design. Companies are trying to push to get the most out of their investment in salary cost.

 Built into that system is an understanding of staff turnover etc that is already quantified. People burning out is never a surprise to the business and is already paid for, so to them it doesn't matter all that much if people stay or go as long as the turnover stays within acceptable bounds.