Nor sleeping time: Musk says that Doge employees work 120 hours per week

Nobody is surprised by the eccentricities or follies that Elon Musk says or proposes, and that is that especially in these last two years, the tycoon and owner of companies such as Tesla, Space X or Twitter (now x) has unleashed controversies in a weekly way on virtually any topic you can imagine.

This speaker that has for their ideas so much impact is not only because he is the richest man in the world, but now He is possibly the most powerful man in the world, the president of the USA, Donald Trump. This explosive combination, as expected, has not left anyone indifferent and almost every day a new chapter for this rocambolesque relationship arises.

Trump hired Musk for his team, and He placed it as the director of a new government efficiency department (DogeThe Department of Government Efficient), which has as main objective rEducate “significantly” the staff of the public administration and cut public spending.

A worrying action, because Six of Musk companies are under investigations, complaints or have been subject to regulatory measures by eleven federal agencies, on which Now this has the power to cut staff. But this situation has one more nonsense, and according to Musk in February, Doge employees are working 120 hours a week to carry out the necessary cuts.

We start from the base that In a week there are a total of 168 hours, And if what Musk says, he would mean that these people so only 48 hours of free time would have 48 hoursin which they have to Sleep, eat, shower and other aspects of personal hygiene and get and return from workwithout counting if they want have a moment of disconnection or entertainment During the week.

And if these only use the free time they have to sleep, they would not reach 8 hours of daily sleep that all experts recommend, but They would stay at 6.8 hours a day, Something that is neither productive, much less good for health.

The facts indicate it and, for example, a 2014 study from Stanford University discovered that The time productivity suffers a sharp decrease when a person works more than 50 hours a weekso bending that amount must be even worse.

We do not know if Musk threw lantern or exaggeration to show that Doge was working hard to cut public spending, but what is clear that if it is true, said Department is a watchmaking bomb that will cease to be efficient (but has already done so) because it is inhuman to work so much.