Curious to see the answers, as I know some people just work a few hours per day
I feel like its difficult to quantify for jobs where you’re being paid to think. Even when I’m goofing off, the problem I need to solve for the day is still lingering in the back of my head somewhere. Actively squinting at it doesn’t seem to make things go any faster and when I do return to work it’s usually to mash out reems of code after letting it stew, but yes, the actual amount of time I’m fulfilling my job description is… less than my working hours.
I feel like its difficult to quantify for jobs where you’re being paid to think.
I mentioned once that I feel like my real job is usually done during my morning shower, and wondered out loud whether I could earn more by showering twice each morning.
My boss told me flatly that as an annually salaried employee, I was already being paid during my showers.
Depends on the day.
Some days I have audit reports due and I’ll have my nose buried in data for six or seven hours at a time. Other days? Can be as low as 3 to 5 hours of actual work, the rest is scrolling Lemmy. 🤣
Programming is my hobby, too, and we are currently using fun/productive technologies, so I have no problem filling out my contractual 7 hours per day.
But all the orga tasks and meetings can easily take up more than half my day. Sometimes, it’s barely a quarter of the day that I’m actually doing something productive.
I average 7-8 hours, but it varies wildly. Sometimes I’ll be at my computer for 10 hours straight getting tons of work done, and other times I’ll not be getting much done and just be done for the day at noon.
Last Friday I discovered some bullshit in how the Outlook APIs handle online meetings. If you directly create an online meeting you can then make a GET request for the meeting id and password. However, if you create an event with the online meeting parameter set to true then whatever is backing the GET request no longer works. This all completely ignores that the credentials should be returned as a response to the initial request to create the meeting. Needless to say that was a leave at noon day.
