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.

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.

too many and never enough

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

8 hours.

To many cameras around to not do my job

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

I'm a graduate student and it varies wildly. When I have to work on my dissertation and teach I definitely work a full 40 hours. Teaching alone takes a shit ton of your time.

Being unemployed tends to be like that.

7 and a half.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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 …

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

I drive a forklift in a warehouse. I probably work 6.5-7 hours a day.

As a rad tech, I work as little as 3 hours to as much as 8-9 on my 10 hour shifts

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

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.

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.