Elon Musk says his DOGE team works 120 hours a week. If they used all their remaining time for sleep, they still wouldn’t come close to 8 hours a night

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• Elon Musk says DOGE employees are working 120 hours a week. With only 168 hours in a week, that means workers would have no more than 6.8 hours of sleep each night, even in the most ideal conditions. Research warns against working more than 55 hours per week and sleeping for less than seven hours of sleep each night.

Back in February, Elon Musk said he and his team at the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) are working 120 hours a week.