What task in your role would be the hardest to explain to someone outside your industry? For me, some of the work seems straightforward until you try explaining all the constraints, tradeoffs, and decision-making involved. What’s something people usually don’t understand about your job?
In an 8-hour day (gee I wish I was only here for 8 hours), about six "work hours" are actual work. There's a 30-minute lunch break and two 15-minute "stretch breaks." I would guess there's about an hour of downtime wedged in the other seven hours. Of course, I usually come in at least 30 minutes early to prep my desk and go over my to-do list and stay 30-60 minutes late to wrap up what I was working on when the whistle blew and clean up the work area to be ready for the next day.
On a day packed with meetings I would say about two hours and on a day without meetings as much I would say about five hours. When I used to work mainly solo on things I used to say the full 8 but now with a team it’s usually no more than five hours because something or someone is always calling me.
I feel this so much. The amount of meeting at certain times of the year are overwhelming. So many meetings could be an email or email response…
1 hour
I start early to get a few productive hours of work before meetings begin
12hrs
Different “work cultures” expect absolutely different approach on employee’s productiveness. Chinese working cultures (as i know from my ex Chinese housemate) does require people ro be 101% engaged into workload of “9/9/6” which means from 9am to 9pm monday-saturday. russian corporative culture is even worse. You have to secure or work on a system 24/7 - so if anything is not “in favour” or your Boss than you have to fix it or solve core problem straight away. I came to UK 4 years ago as a political refugee having 13 years of russian cultural experience. Here, in UK, if you text your line manager on a weekend he will be angry as so as he would want to fire you.
I'd say 6 hours (including productive meetings). I usually multitask on worthless Teams calls too.
8 out of 9.5 doing "productive" work. However, productivity slows as the day goes on. I'd say only 3 hours of 100% productive capacity and declines to 20% the last hour. Studies show that is the norm for office work environments. And I try to be the norm.
I had this same question before. Based on my survey people worked 60-70% of the day. I think that's probably lower now since meetings have become more prevalent and can be a big drain for a lot of people.
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