Elon Musk says his Doge team works 120 hours a week. If they had used all the remaining time to sleep, they would still not approach 8 hours at night

Back in February, Elon Musk said he and his team were in the Government Efficiency Department (Doge) Working 120 hours per week.

“Our bureaucratic opponents optimistically work 40 hours a week”, added. “That’s why they lose so quickly.”

To be clear, there is 168 hours a week, which means that if Musk and his dog employees work 120 of those hours, they only have 48 hours to use them for everything else: preparing and eating food, personal hygiene, not to mention free time for hobbies or spending time with their families.

Just for fun, suppose you need to spend 120 from your 168 hours a week working, so use the remaining 48 hours only for sleeping and just sleeping: you still wouldn’t get closer to the full eight hours per night, What many doctors recommend. With 48 hours of potential sleep that spreads over seven days, even in the most ideal conditions, the most you could get is 6.8 hours per night. Assuming that the doe workers do not work from home (a mush called remote work “Morally wrong” In 2023) it is certainly to say that Dogea employees who work 120 hours would not even scratch 6.8 hours of sleep, because they will take time to travel, unless they squeeze in the drip breaks during the day.

To be completely clear, sleep is vital to function. The Mayo Clinic says Regular obtaining less than seven hours of sleep for adults “is associated with poor health, including weight gain, having body mass index of 30 or more, diabetes, high blood pressure, heart disease, stroke and depression.” IN CDC also says he gets less than seven hours of sleep Regularly “can lead to serious health problems.”

Musk, however, is a famous worker. In a November 2022 interview. With the director of Baron Capital, Ron Baron, the richest man in the world said he “lives in a factory in Fremont and the one in Nevada, three years. That was my main residence.”

“I slept on the couch at one point, in a tent on the roof, and for a while I just slept there under my table, which is outdoors at the factory,” he said. “It was damn embarrassed to sleep on that floor and always, when I woke up, I would smell of a metal dust.”

The men’s pressure for employees make more effective by simply recording more hours, may not be effective. AND Study 2014 at Stanford University The detected productivity by hour has a sharp relegation when a person works more than 50 hours per week, and “exit at 70 hours differs from exit at 56 hours”, which means that your efficiency is reduced above a particular threshold. Maybe related to Musk recently said that jugglia with his responsibilities with Doge, Teslaand his other private companies like Universe and Xai “With great difficulty.”

The 55-hour mark appears to be the same consequences for both productivity and for the benefit of 2021 World Health Organization Data745,000 people died in 2016 either of a stroke or heart disease “as a result of working at least 55 hours a week.” That same study said that more than 55 hours a week gives you 35% higher risk of stroke and a 17% higher risk of heart disease, compared to traditional weekly from 35 to 40 hours.

“Working 55 hours or more weekly is a serious danger to health,” said Dr. Maria Neira’s statement, who has been the director of WHO at the Department of Public Health and the Environment since 2005.

Musk and his dogs did not answer WealthRequest for comment.

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