I feel like its difficult to quantify for jobs where you're being paid to think. Even when I'm goofing off, the problem I need to solve for the day is still lingering in the back of my head somewhere. Actively squinting at it doesn't seem to make things go any faster and when I do return to work it's usually to mash out reems of code after letting it stew, but yes, the actual amount of time I'm fulfilling my job description is... less than my working hours.
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I feel like its difficult to quantify for jobs where you're being paid to think.
I mentioned once that I feel like my real job is usually done during my morning shower, and wondered out loud whether I could earn more by showering twice each morning.
My boss told me flatly that as an annually salaried employee, I was already being paid during my showers.
Depends if you count pointless meetings my company requires as work.
We work 9-5 with an hour lunch. Most of the day is pair programming, so there's not the same tendency to fart around on Reddit I had when working solo. We take breaks, so it's basically 6 hours on no-meeting day.
Sometimes 2 sometimes 12.
Seems fair
In the many years of commuting to an open plan office I think 4 hours was probably the max, and usually it was less.
Since working from home, I'm not sure exactly but it's a lot more, and honestly it's more than is healthy. I'm still less tired overall though.
I work as a bartender. I'll be working the whole shift from 40% to 100% anything less intense then that I'll be on break or asked to start later or go home. Usually it's a 730pm to 2am deal so 6ish ours not including break
I average 7-8 hours, but it varies wildly. Sometimes I'll be at my computer for 10 hours straight getting tons of work done, and other times I'll not be getting much done and just be done for the day at noon.
Last Friday I discovered some bullshit in how the Outlook APIs handle online meetings. If you directly create an online meeting you can then make a GET request for the meeting id and password. However, if you create an event with the online meeting parameter set to true then whatever is backing the GET request no longer works. This all completely ignores that the credentials should be returned as a response to the initial request to create the meeting. Needless to say that was a leave at noon day.
Programming is my hobby, too, and we are currently using fun/productive technologies, so I have no problem filling out my contractual 7 hours per day.
But all the orga tasks and meetings can easily take up more than half my day. Sometimes, it's barely a quarter of the day that I'm actually doing something productive.
Depends. The meetings I attend are mostly useful so I’ll count those as work. Usually 6-8 hours, sometimes 8-10 on outlier days (stay late to work with AU/UK teams, running something outside US working hours, etc.)
Depends on the day.
Some days I have audit reports due and I’ll have my nose buried in data for six or seven hours at a time. Other days? Can be as low as 3 to 5 hours of actual work, the rest is scrolling Lemmy. 🤣
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