Ask HN: What does your WFH day/routine look like? • Hacker News Board

Re: Ask HN: What does your WFH day/routine look like?

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Post by jonlinks » Mon, Jan 23, 2023, 8:24 PM UTC

Wake up at 8:15am, get up slowly with a shower and aim to clock in for 9am. 9-10am is the time I use to 'set the tone' for the day; I'll get acquainted with my tasks for the day, follow up on Slack/GitHub notifications, or push some quick changes before standup. 10am standup, and usually some meetings littered around the morning. Depending on the day it might be 10:45-11am before I start some deeper focused work. I usually take a 12:15 lunch, but depends on meetings. I like taking a walk during lunch, but its not always feasible with the weather or time. 1:30pm onwards is just cracking through work, until I clock out—usually 6-7pm depending on what I need to get done.

Evenings are usually reserved for catching up with family (single, living at home) and friends, as well as putting some hours into hobbies and relaxing. I'll usually head to bed at 11pm to do some reading or watch something, aiming to actually sleep at 12:30am.

Re: Ask HN: What does your WFH day/routine look like?

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Post by 100011_100001 » Mon, Jan 23, 2023, 8:28 PM UTC

4 kids, wife

Wake up at 5:40

Kid prep, school buses etc

7:30 go to my office, write down my todo, journal

7:45 yoga or gym

8:30 cardio + read email, chats, reply to emails

9:00 write code

10 standup

10:30 write code

11:30 lunch

12:00-5:00 work

Re: Ask HN: What does your WFH day/routine look like?

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Post by theflyingelvis » Mon, Jan 23, 2023, 8:29 PM UTC

I get up around seven; get outta bed around nine.

Re: Ask HN: What does your WFH day/routine look like?

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Post by browningstreet » Mon, Jan 23, 2023, 8:38 PM UTC

Live alone.

Wake at 520am and go to gym. Showered and coffee by 730am when I logon. Work till 4ish. Maybe go for a walk or run. Maybe go shopping. Usually in bed around 9.

Re: Ask HN: What does your WFH day/routine look like?

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Post by i_like_pie » Mon, Jan 23, 2023, 9:04 PM UTC

no kids/majority of team PST

7am = wake up

730-845am = train

9am-12pm = deep work (no meetings)

12pm-2pm = stand-ups/all hands/unblock teammates or focus if everyone is good

2-4pm = focus work (no meetings)

4-830pm = help team or auto-pilot work that doesn't require clear mind (otherwise hard tasks if energy left)

830-10:30pm = game/read/try to convince gf to not break up with me

Re: Ask HN: What does your WFH day/routine look like?

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Post by phabricator » Mon, Jan 23, 2023, 9:16 PM UTC

1. Wake up 15 minutes before standup

2. Put on dress shirt over gym shorts

3. Write code until dark, try to eat/drink coffee when time allows (meetings)

4. Go to sleep

Re: Ask HN: What does your WFH day/routine look like?

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Post by moooo99 » Mon, Jan 23, 2023, 9:28 PM UTC

No kids either.

7:45 Fall out of bed thanks to multiple alarm clocks and a DIY daylight alarm

8:00 Join our team standup meeting

8:30 Get breakfast, a cup of tea and make the plan for the day

8:45 Start with my plan

12:15 - 13:00 Lunch break

13:00 - 15:45 Rest of the work day

15:45 - 17:00 Try to get some sunlight and relax

17:00 - 20:00 Try to work through university assignments (part time student)

After 20:00 work on a sideproject or spend time with gf watching netflix, playing boardgames or going out (summer)

Re: Ask HN: What does your WFH day/routine look like?

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Post by poetril » Mon, Jan 23, 2023, 9:39 PM UTC

Also no kids. I live CST but work on a EST schedule to stay in line with the majority of my time.

6:30 Wake up, dogs out, straight to making some coffee.

6:45 - 7:15ish Walk dogs

7:15ish - 8:00 Free time (play a video game, read, watch YouTube etc)

8:00 - 8:30 Morning admin (emails, check calendar) stuff before stand up

8:30 stand up

8:30 - 11:00 Focused work. Do no disturb on Slack and notifications off on email. Probably get 70% of my work each day done in this block

11:00-12:00 Lunch hour

12:00 - 4:00 Remaining work for the day. Try to do less intense work in this block. Emails, documentation, notes for the day, and plan for tomorrow

4:00 - 6:00 Free time. Walk dogs again, video games, reading, etc.

6:00 - 8:00 Exercise or even more free time if I'm resting. I'll usually rock climb

8:30 - 10:00 Make dinner and relax with my SO or have more time to my self.

Re: Ask HN: What does your WFH day/routine look like?

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Post by TurkishPoptart » Mon, Jan 23, 2023, 9:40 PM UTC

How many hours of meetings do you guys tend to have per day/per week? I want to see if my schedule is highly unusual or not.

Re: Ask HN: What does your WFH day/routine look like?

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Post by moomoo11 » Mon, Jan 23, 2023, 9:44 PM UTC

Single dude living in SF bay area.. This is my schedule for work days -

- 05:55 wake up and get ready

- 06:30 to 08:00 work on my own biz

- 08:00 to 08:20 breakfast / coffee

- 08:30 to 17:00 work. If I crush a lot of work that day, sometimes I end around 16:00 since most of my team is East Coast and UK.

After work I prep for dinner, keep working on my projects, and then drive 5 min west to the beach right before sunset and sit in the back of my car writing in my notebook. This is my favorite time of the whole day, a solid 30 min break where I don't look at my phone or any screen.

I come back home, exercise a bit for 15 min, and then make and eat dinner.

Basically from 19:30 til 23:00, I work on my own biz again or work on whatever projects I am interested in. In bed by 23:45.

Unless I am on call that week (and even then, rarely since we're beasts) or we have something go really wrong, I'm lucky that I don't have work that carries on past like 16:00 most days.

Every 2 weeks on Sunday, I take one whole day off where I don't look at a phone or anything and instead go for a drive either to John Muir or somewhere around Pacifica and just am outside all day, away from noise and people. That helps me reset otherwise I will go nuts.