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This week I was told another employee has been "working weekends for months" to get the project done, passive aggressively implying I hadn't done the same.

The problem with this is the guy is addicted to working weekends. He's been doing it for years and it makes everyone else look like "slackers", despite his obvious burnout.

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I think this hints at the crux of the problem. I have no problem with others working long hours, and will even put in a stint here and there when I feel it's warranted.

The problem I see is that it slowly becomes the new norm and benchmark, regardless of whether long hours are productive. These new expectations then get encoded in cultures that devalue those who either choose to spend time on other things or who are simply more efficient.

Do we just need to find better measures of output and figure out what fair compensation for average output is?

Could he just be bad at his job? Maybe he needs the extra time to compensate for what he does not accomplish during the M-F work week.

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