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

According to my Microsofts Viva, at my last job I spent roughly 40% of my time in meetings. Which was soul sucking, almost no work got done due to the overhead of attending / preparing for the meetings.

At my current role (checking Viva again), I average 6.2hr of meetings each week. The difference that has made is astounding. I'm much more excited to engage with work.

Single, no kids, live alone.

I wake up at 6 (ideally, but I struggle sometimes), meditation, make coffee and go to my office, check Slack, Email, PRs, then continue workinng from where I paused previous evening. 10am stand-up, pair up with someone if anyone needs my help or if I need someone's help. Continue work until 3 (hard stop 8 hours after I start, whenever that is).

Recently been doing my bachelor's online, almost done, so I usually work on that during evenings and weekends. Before that, I'd play video games or work on side projects.

I try to cook my own meals, I eat once a day, most of the time dinner.

Wake up (time varies). Have breakfast, coffee, work until done. Of course I have lunch in between (at home). Sometimes I run errands during the day.

If I’m feeling up to it I’ll play golf before or after work. Sometimes I will do a workout (home gym).

Overall I love the flexibility and ability to get more done professionally and personally in the same or less time.

> 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

Sounds like a wonderful time for unwinding. What would you be writing in those time?

Married, no children

5:55am - Wake up and have a light breakfast

6:30am - Start the work day

11:30ish - Lunch

3:30pm - Finish work day; I cannot stress how great it is to start and end the work day early (I have to work during 3 "core hours" but my schedule is flexible beyond that). It is like I have my entire day left ahead of me to enjoy.

3:30pm - Take a walk; this is a somewhat new addition to the schedule and has become quite critical. It dawned on my how important my daily walk to-from work was to my health and how I had lost that, so I reinstated walking into the routine.

4:00pm - Finish up house chores (folding laundry, vacuuming, etc)

4:30pm - Play games for while to flush the day's work from my mind, then work on personal projects, before my wife gets home. If need be, I do external chores (grocery shopping, for example)

Exercise every other day in the evening.

Someone asked about meetings, and to tell the truth I tend to have shockingly few meetings. Big group meetings (all staff, all engineers, all team) are relatively rare. Beyond those, I have almost nothing. For example, this week I have one (1) 30-minute meeting. Next week I have three (3) meetings, totaling four (4) hours.