Tech leaders say AI means less work - their staff say they work up to 90 hours a week
For years, it was a more typical 9-5 office job.But the former OpenAI employee said they would put in at least 70 hours a week, much more than they did in previous tech jobs. At OpenAI and Anthropic, for instance, sprints can stretch on for many weeks and top 90 hours of work in a seven-day period, tech workers that the BBC spoke to for this story said.Neither company responded to BBC requests for comment. Being 'drafted'At Meta, workers said they have been abruptly pushed onto teams this year doing AI work being treated as urgent.
- ▪For years, it was a more typical 9-5 office job.But the former OpenAI employee said they would put in at least 70 hours a week, much more than they did in previous tech jobs.
- ▪At OpenAI and Anthropic, for instance, sprints can stretch on for many weeks and top 90 hours of work in a seven-day period, tech workers that the BBC spoke to for this story said.Neither company responded to BBC requests for comment.
- ▪Being 'drafted'At Meta, workers said they have been abruptly pushed onto teams this year doing AI work being treated as urgent.
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Tech leaders say AI means less work - their staff say they work up to 90 hours a weekImage source, Getty ImagesByKali HaysTechnology reporterPublished5 minutes agoFor years now, executives at companies that are pouring hundreds of billions of dollars a year into developing various artificial intelligence tools have insisted that the technology will ultimately mean people will spend less of their time working.An engineering director at Google said four years ago that AI would deliver a four-day work week by 2025, external.Earlier this year, and just one year after that engineering director's prediction, OpenAI took up the challenge, in a manner of speaking.
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