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Is it me or the article reads as "Not everyone works what they should, look at these slackers.."? Also I don't know exactly how they measure this, but I have a feeling it might be the time people spend pressing buttons..
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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 ;)
While not impossible, I find it implausible ;)
Is it me or the article reads as "Not everyone works what they should, look at these slackers.."? Also I don't know exactly how they measure this, but I have a feeling it might be the time people spend pressing buttons..
Earlier quoted context omitted.
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 ;)
“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.
Still work: if it’s preventing you from focusing but not personal time, it’s work. Your employer choosing to waste your time on low productivity meetings is something to try to improve but you shouldn’t feel any obligation to make up for it with your own free time.
Is it me or the article reads as "Not everyone works what they should, look at these slackers.."? Also I don't know exactly how they measure this, but I have a feeling it might be the time people spend pressing buttons..
This isn't surprising, because devs have a tendency to focus on the hard bits of coding as being their work. Why not, right? It's probably the most satisfying too, so we forget the bits where we document, explain to colleagues, organize, etc. Don't forget that a lot of "not working" such as browsing a certain orange-and-beige website actually IS work as well: you wouldn't be updated on what's going on in the tech wor…
That reads sarcastic, but in today’s workplace you really need to know the legal framework you’re working within or you’ll probably be fleeced or worse. How lawyers charge actually is instructive.
This isn't surprising, because devs have a tendency to focus on the hard bits of coding as being their work. Why not, right? It's probably the most satisfying too, so we forget the bits where we document, explain to colleagues, organize, etc. Don't forget that a lot of "not working" such as browsing a certain orange-and-beige website actually IS work as well: you wouldn't be updated on what's going on in the tech wor…
As someone who finds coding completely unsatisfying and who instead chose to have a career sitting in meetings to discuss what the business should do, I find this pretty funny.
I can’t imagine anything being as satisfying as communicating well with another person.