To separate between privacy sin and specialization/scaling up sin v.03

Often times people complained over working overtime or employees not wanting to work overtime while not contributing enough. Also I assume that the popular argument was that working overtime costs not only extra salary expenses but also productivity expenses in the future. 

I'm all for working effective and efficiently, utilizing the working hours as much as possible. But people often stopped after the notion that working overtime is bad, but looking at it deeper, there are at least 2 divisions of reasons why it is bad:

1. Invasion of privacy. People need their own time with themselves and their family, prying on this means the business would be perceived as a negative contributor to one's quality of life even though it is also the income source of the family. Salaries are supposed to support one's quality of life, but if the expense was the quality of life itself then its about margins. 

2. Specialization problem. If you worked overtime because you are doing multiple kinds of jobs at your workplace, say for example entertaining clients besides accounting, selling besides warehouse supervising, then its a specialization problem. I'm not saying a business supposed to only just do one thing, or a person, but the idea of scaling up is about multiplying your product exponentially. So no matter if it were done at working hours or outside of working hours, if that caused one to worked overtime then its another type of toil on the business (other than the privacy issue). 

So if your business had to work overtime, for most of us its inevitable, I would suggest that it would be for the things that were well defined as your products/services. If the components of your products/services were well defined, then the limit would be perceivable, the cost, and the benefit of the overtime as well and people would be able to internalize them and made it their own personal agenda (easier). If the business had no clear definition of the components then there's the impression of endlessness of costs demanded from each employee. In turn this would contribute to the inclination of the employee feeling exploited, being treated inhumane, and all the evil things that would came after because the potential for them not being able to specialize and to have their own life were endless (even though maybe other businesses worked overtime more while having their employees less disgruntled than yours). 

But if the costs and the components of the products and the services provided by each people were well defined the owners would benefit as well as the employees, in the way that they could measure the performance of the employees, the management, identify points of adjustments, perceived costs of adjustments or non-adjustments (economical, monetary, mental, property-wise, legal-wise, etc etc), and made smart decisions that would otherwise wouldn't be possible due to obscurity . 

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