Time Limit podcast • 47 episodes

Work Smarter, Work Harder, Just Don't Work Longer

TeamGantt co-founders Nathan Gilmore and John Correlli explain why the podcast is called Time Limit (the company was started in four hours a week) and make the case for setting a hard weekly hour limit for your team, with engineer Tyson Nero comparing 50-hour weeks at past employers to TeamGantt's 36-hour week. They walk through burnout, Henry Ford's shorter shifts, Parkinson's law and how to pilot a shorter week without lowering goals.

Key takeaways

Longer hours give diminishing returns; Nathan's own burnout came from adding evening work on top of a normal day.
You have 168 hours a week; budget them across family, health and work the way you budget money.
TeamGantt moved to a permanent 36-hour week (half-day Fridays) after testing it over three summers and still hitting its goals.
Run the shorter week as a time-boxed pilot, keep goals aggressive, and measure the results before making it permanent.
Leaders have to model the limit visibly or the team will keep working long hours.

About this episode

Nathan and John talk about working hard without burning out, and how we handle our work hours at TeamGantt.