Americans are notorious overworkers. Americans log more work hours per year than workers in nearly all developed countries, according toin the U.S. leads to higher raises, bigger bonuses, and more and faster promotions. Yet this is not meritocracy at its finest. New research finds that the American obsession with long work hours disadvantages women in two distinct ways: one way if women don’t overwork, and another way if women do.In a survey of 230 U.S.
In the U.S., working longer hours—particularly for managers and professionals—correlates with higher pay and more promotions. So men’s tendency to work longer hours than women is sometimes cited as a purportedly “legitimate” basis for the gender gaps in both pay and leadership positions. But this claim assumes that longer hours are a proxy for higher performance. This new study undermines that assumption.
As expected, the study found robust evidence of an “overwork premium.” Participants selected the overworker to receive workplace rewards nearly 89% of the time, whether the overworker was male or female. It’s that the overwork premium existed even with identical performance evaluations. The study was designed to indicate that the overworking employees were less efficient than the full-time workers. Yet the overworking employees still reaped the rewards. According to the researchers, “respondents overwhelmingly preferred to allocate rewards to overworkers over equally performing—and, by definition, more efficient—full-time workers.
This finding suggests that even when a woman completes the same amount and quality of work in 40 hours as a man does in 60 hours, the man will receive greater rewards. So women are disadvantaged not just because they tend to work less hours than men. Women are disadvantaged because face time gets valued more than efficiency. The hustle culture is not really about hustle after all.
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