Felessan
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I worked in finance and when I came there crunches was huge. We worked 16 hours for 2 weeks to get it done. But it was due to process was poor and data quality was abysmal. Didn't like it at all, so we spent some time, even crunching in non-reporting period when everyone was relaxing, fixing the process, calculations, quality of data and self-checks. And in the end I was the person whom people hate the most - I left job casually with "good luck guys" as my part just didn't need any crunching anymore.For example in finance, the team cant close off the month or quarter until the numbers are accurately forecast and processed as much as possible late in the game and then the team submits final numbers. You dont close off the month or quarter at the beginning of the month or quarter. It's not close to being done yet. You got to wait till you get near the end point and then do it. And hope there's no weird shit going on that week that prevents smoothly doing it.
Now I work on the other side, the side that point out mistakes and make finance people crunch, and things remain the same. Finance so busy crunching so they left little strength to improve and optimize, making it a death loop.
Actually opposite, productivity falls sharply after 6-8 hours of extensive mental works.Crunch is inevitable because human beings are most productive working under pressure and against deadline.
But it's really inevitable as people do have tendency to slack off and push things to the last minute making crunch the only viable solution.