Agree 100%; but there are a lot of self-deluded workaholics who don’t understand why everyone else can’t (or won’t) work like them — and these people tend to set the culture.
You have no idea how difficult it is to bring these ideas to executives on the business side. They wrote this idea of “40 hour weeks are more productive” off decades ago because it didn’t suit their needs (people in executive positions tend to get there by working longer hours than others, so this becomes the metric they push as critical for success.) “The Mythical Man Month” is something everyone reads simply so they can ignore it because “well, that applies to normal people...”
You have no idea how difficult it is to bring these ideas to executives on the business side. They wrote this idea of “40 hour weeks are more productive” off decades ago because it didn’t suit their needs (people in executive positions tend to get there by working longer hours than others, so this becomes the metric they push as critical for success.) “The Mythical Man Month” is something everyone reads simply so they can ignore it because “well, that applies to normal people...”