Thread by @jbarro

Remember, people who say they work 75 or more hours a week are usually lying, or at least grossly overestimating: nymag.com/intelligencer/…

https://twitter.com/rickhasen/status/1372571911973003267

I absolutely do not believe that the average Goldman Sachs analyst works 98 hours a week.

I am seeing the replies to this and I know people are very invested in the idea that they have been working 100 hour weeks and probably even believe it, but again: such claims are typically greatly exaggerated. nymag.com/intelligencer/…

This, for example, adds to 82 hours. It is evidence for 98 being a large exaggeration, not evidence against it.

https://twitter.com/m_robertson401/status/1372598104575209477

(Also I bet they knocked off before 11:30pm on Friday most of the time)

In any case, they certainly do work too many hours, and I'm glad I did my banking stint at a commercial bank. 80 hours is definitely too many hours, and frankly is a large enough number of hours to announce that you are working.

I guess if you work 80 hours a week you need to say you work 100 hours a week so people know you're working more than the guy who says he works 85 hours a week but really works 60 hours.