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One-third of tech workers admit to working only 3 to 4 hours a day

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Re: One-third of tech workers admit to working only 3 to 4 hours a day

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Post by Bootvis »

Causality1 wrote: post #6
ceejayoz wrote: post #2

“How many real hours of work do you put in each day?” Am I supposed to count meetings I didn't need to be on, or that could've been an email, or that get rescheduled at the last minute for 15 minutes later than originally?

I'd say anything that prevents you from, for instance, browsing the internet for pleasure counts as work. Meeting in a boardroom? Work. Zoom call in which you have to regularly participate? Work. Zoom call you can basically ignore while you read HN? Not work.

In that zoom call I’m not walking along the beach or napping on the couch or cleaning the house or any other activity I prefer to attending a meeting. So I’d say it’s work as well.

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Post by levosmetalo »

ceejayoz wrote: post #2

“How many real hours of work do you put in each day?” Am I supposed to count meetings I didn't need to be on, or that could've been an email, or that get rescheduled at the last minute for 15 minutes later than originally?

Work time is office time. If I can't do anything that I want during that time, it's work.

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Post by Eddy_Viscosity2 »

This sounds about right for focused thinking work. Also probably an average. For me if I'm really in deep on a problem, then I work much more than that as I try and figure it out, including evenings and weekends. But... once its done, that might be followed by some "light" work days.

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Post by austincheney »

There is less incentive to do work when your output is the same as those who work twice (or many times more) as much. When you watch your coworkers fumble through constant framework and trendy tool bullshit instead of actually solving for the business requirements you really want to do the right thing and bypass the stupidity to deliver actual results back to the business. Doing that, however, often results in retribution, so you just sit there not doing work.

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Post by yokaze »

jansan wrote: post #8

I am officially working half time. You know what that means :)

Not sure that I do. I think, there is subtext which may not translate across cultural boundaries. The smiley seems to indicate a joke.

In my experience, working part-time means getting paid only the proportional amount for the benefit of only having to be present for that part, while at the same time having to deliver the same output as the full-time.

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Post by secretsatan »

Meetings can really disrupt my day, I think most devs understand the ramp up it can take to get into a problem, and having meetings spaced out all day can really hit that. But also, does anyone count when you're on home time and it you suddenly have an idea on how to solve a work problem that's was bugging you throughout the day and couldn't find a decent approach, and didn't really write much code.

Re: One-third of tech workers admit to working only 3 to 4 hours a day

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Post by intev »

Bootvis wrote: post #11
Causality1 wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'd say anything that prevents you from, for instance, browsing the internet for pleasure counts as work. Meeting in a boardroom? Work. Zoom call in which you have to regularly participate? Work. Zoom call you can basically ignore while you read HN? Not work.

In that zoom call I’m not walking along the beach or napping on the couch or cleaning the house or any other activity I prefer to attending a meeting. So I’d say it’s work as well.

By that logic, you could get away with doing and calling it work. You must be "working" a lot ;)
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