As soon as profitability is achieved, how can the programmers go back from 10-11 to 8 hours / day. The company will no longer be profitable. Unless the boss provides incentive to work more (such as profit sharing), you'll have some pretty pissed of programmers. In the end, this could cost more then the benefit of higher productivity.
As a programmer myself, in an 9 hour day, I can only code for about 4. My attention to detail quickly wanes if I try much more than that, and one false line of code could result in hours of debug time.
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As soon as profitability is achieved, how can the programmers go back from 10-11 to 8 hours / day. The company will no longer be profitable. Unless the boss provides incentive to work more (such as profit sharing), you'll have some pretty pissed of programmers. In the end, this could cost more then the benefit of higher productivity. As a programmer myself, in an 9 hour day, I can only code for about 4. My attention to detail quickly wanes if I try much more than that, and one false line of code could result in hours of debug time.