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Two words: Interindividual differences.
They also recommend 8-9 hours sleep. Some people need more, some people need less. The same point applies to many different phenomena.
True, and I suspect that this is the most likely explanation.
However, there is the problem that unless need-for-rest is actually negatively correlated with the type of intelligence that is needed in tech companies, they should still have the same averages over all their workers and therefore also have the same optimum of 40 hours per work, at least on average. Otherwise we would see the same trends in other kinds of industry.
Actually I just noticed that maybe this does happen in other industries as well and is just overreported in tech companies. Does anyone know something about this?