Asklemmy

I feel like I work about 2 hours a day some days. Meetings and slack are distractions as well as ADHD tendencies. There's so much overhead involved in working for a company that it makes sense. If I just had specs and and interesting problem to solve, I could easily get lost in my work for 8 hours. But that rarely is the case.

I've had days of maybe 15 minutes of actual work, and 10 hour days. very variable. I used to have a job paid 8 hours with literally 45 minutes of work a day. loved it, despite the low pay. way before WFH times though so it was a lot of time looking busy

I’ve been tracking my time with Toggl, so I can answer that with surprising amount of detail and confidence.

I took my time data from 2022, and made a bunch of calculations with it. The results are: 3:41-7:52 hours per day. The median and average were both 5:54. Ooh, looks like this data might actually follow the normal distribution after all! Anyway, that range covers 80% of the distribution, so extremely short and long days fall in the 20% that’s outside of that range.

In this calculation I’ve counted as working all the meetings, casual chitchat, normal work, organizing and all the random administration clutter. Commutes, lunches and time wasted in social media time don’t count as work.

Naw, work as little as possible while still convincing your manager you're productive, that's what most of them do.

Hours worked is a silly metric anyways. There are some cases where it makes sense, but it should be measured by productivity.

I've had times where I've gotten more work done in the first 4 hours of the day than I normally get done in 3-4 days. The system is totally screwed and employers are lazy and want easy ways to measure their employees.

It's complicated, but the moral of the story is, never work more than you have to. Never forget that if you're not getting overtime pay, then you are donating your labor and time for free to your employer. They are getting lots of value for absolutely nothing in return.

And don't be fooled by the corporate propaganda about being recognized for your efforts or some such crap, it's bogus. 95% of the time the best you can hope for is a pat on the back for your "good work" maybe if you're really lucky, you'll get a company branded coffee mug or even a $10 gift card to Starbucks...

Multiple times at different companies my actions directly saved the company thousands of dollars and in one case possibly a person's job. What did I get for that? Jack squat, zero compensation or bonus, no extra time off, nothing. I got a shout out in a Teams meeting for, "stepping up and being a team player." Capitalist corporate garbage.

I spend about half my day or more at work playing videos games on my Steam Deck. And this is the busy season. Come winter, we won't have anything to do.

I make more than the average for my area, and I work weekdays, nine to five. It's a pretty good gig. The last week I've basically been paid to play Baldur's Gate 3.

All 8 hours. It's a physical job, I'm on my feet all day, but it's one of the better ones I've had recently.

I'm stuck in the food service industry, so I work 9hr days 5 days a week :) All gruelling and soul-sucking, of course!

About 2.5 hours before lunch, then long 90 minute lunch, then maybe 3 hours. So I guess around 5.5 hours.

My job requires me to work 7h a day. When I am working from home I will probably work 6h-6.5h since I will take two 15 minute breaks but otherwise there is nothing to distract me. If I work from the office however that number easily drops to 4.5-5h since I will be interrupted all the time by various issues and also just take more breaks due to others taking them as well.

Edit: I don’t really know how it is to work from a hole, but I know how to work from home

7 and a half.

Same. 3h or less usually. Love my colleagues, the work is fine. But the requirements are so low that I'm able to manage a startup during work hours 😌 #softwaredeveloper

Being unemployed tends to be like that.

In an 8 hour day, I'd say probably 7 hours

The other hour probably bathroom trips, coffee/water breaks, occasional quick chats with coworkers throughout the day

I can't hit a full 8 hours actual work unless I do a 9 hour day.

Sometimes I have a shorter lunch break or try not to poop until I get home lol, so I can hit 8 hours quicker

Mostly 2-3 hours of an 8 hour day. Once a week I have to go in guns blazing for 5 straight hours of work in a 10 hour shift.

8 hours.

To many cameras around to not do my job

I estimate about 4 or 5 hours of actual work per day. I'm a high level IT engineer. The rest of the time is just organization or resting my brain between difficult assignments.

I was previously an IT manager and averaged 11+ hours of work per day.

My days vary, depends on the amount of clients. 6-10hrs and I am doing physical labor so its at maximum 10-15% downtime

I find 4 hours a day ideal (if I have to work at all) and 6 hours optimal.

On average, about 5hrs a day. 2hrs on a slow day and 7hrs on a fast day.

referring to how much time working? or how much time I spend doing my job? I have no problem working in the garden or on the house – but having to do a job so I don’t starve or go homeless makes me a little resentful …

Depends a lot day to day. Sometimes like last week, 7 out of the 8 hours. Today, so far none. Not much useful to do, so just do useless trainings.

8 hour day, I work 7.5 of that. As soon as I enter the yard I'm in work mode. I work in the city gardens. I'm not surrounded by too many distractions like computers, phones and friends because I'm outside on site and I keep the work conversations about work only. Less drama that way.

Education in a Title 1 school. I'm contracted five days for eight hours, but I probably work more like ten hours with before school and after school activities and additional stipend duties I've taken on. You don't get much in the way for downtime between meetings, grading, and planning.

Weekends are my time. Non-negotiable.

Most days 4 or 5 hrs. Around 5% of the time, 12+ hrs.