"why do people work weekends and long hours?"
- Almost everyone is short staffed. For some people, if they don't work longer hours, the work will not be done.
- Bureaucracy. It's really hard to get things done at Morgan. And our new religion, Agile, is unfortunately not looking like it's the antidote to bureaucracy, and so far is not making things better for most people and is generally increasing negative sentiment, as much of it is just adding more process.
- A lot of deployments need to happen in the evenings, so you're stuck at work. Good luck if your change doesn't work, now you're getting home at 10 pm.
- There is a culture that makes people feel like they're inadequate, so they try to compensate by working longer hours. This whole transformation business is going to only increase people's feeling of inadequacy, and many will just leave to find some place else where not every aspect of how you do work is dictated by efficiency obsessed managers.
- Almost everyone has some level of anxiety about losing their job, because it's quite common at Morgan to lose your job. That makes some people think that if they work hard (aka long hours) they'll be spared.
- These are a minority, but some people just like to work long hours.
Reposted from @12nq0mOz-5wkc . Maybe not a topic directly connected to the layoffs, but this post sure paints a good picture of the culture and the work atmosphere at Morgan