Whats your productivity at work?

Lando Griffin · 09-01-2014 11:47pm #1

Just as the title suggests.
I spend 8 hours a day at work ( private sector) and probably spend 6 being productive and 1 chatting and fluting around and 1hour on breaks; which isnt bad since alot has to be said about being happy in the work place & the managers stop a chat to people every now a again.
So whats yours?
Be it a doctor or road sweep a pilot or zoo keeper how productive are you?

Specialun · 09-01-2014 11:49pm

At very best im productive for 4 hrs out of an 8 1/2 hr day

Penny Tration · 09-01-2014 11:50pm

I'm productive for 8 and a half hours out of a nine hour shift. The missing half hour is my break. I try to be as productive as possible because I work alone and get bored or lonely otherwise

Lando Griffin · 09-01-2014 11:50pm

Specialun wrote: »

At very best im productive for 4 hrs out of an 8 1/2 hr day

Shocking statistic.

Quazzie · 09-01-2014 11:51pm

Lando Griffin wrote: »

Just as the title suggests.
I spend 8 hours a day at work ( private sector) and probably spend 7 being productive and 1 chatting and fluting around and 1hour on breaks; which isnt bad since alot has to be said about being happy in the work place & the managers stop a chat to people every now a again.
So whats yours?
Be it a doctor or road sweep a pilot or zoo keeper how productive are you?

8 does not equals 7+1+1.

Mariasofia · 09-01-2014 11:51pm

Made some of my finest most productive..........

posts to boards at work :-D

The Backwards Man · 09-01-2014 11:52pm

On call 24 hours a day a lot. Productive about 3 hours a day mostly. Get paid fcuk all for what I'm doing all the time.

Lando Griffin · 09-01-2014 11:53pm

Quazzie wrote: »

8 does not equals 7+1+1.

Fixed.
Thanks.

Specialun · 09-01-2014 11:54pm

Lando Griffin wrote: »

Shocking statistic.

My boss doesnt mind as a hammer targets

humbert · 09-01-2014 11:54pm

Working at home at the moment so it's 16 hours of being 50% active but when in the office, outside of coffee breaks, I'm active and if I'm doing something interesting I'm happy enough to continue at home.

rwg · 09-01-2014 11:54pm

I'm productive for 9 hrs a day from 9 in work, including breaks, I do my best thinking on the toilet

Cody montana · 09-01-2014 11:55pm

About 5out of 8 hours.
The rest is arseing around.

Aidric · 09-01-2014 11:55pm

Is this the HSE chatforum? 4 hours productivity in a day? That's a sackable offense where I'm concerned.

Orlaw3136 · 09-01-2014 11:56pm

I'm self-employed.

Accordingly I work fcucking hard, when at work which is probably a 60 hour week. It would sprawl into an 80 hour week or more if I let time go idly by.

One thing that massively increased my 'productivity' was having a child. Huge motivation to get into work early, get what needs to be done, done, and get out.

Corkladddd!! · 09-01-2014 11:57pm

It varies as my work increases with different campaigns etc. but I'm at about 85% normally with low periods of about 50% to highs of 130% (ie extra hours unpaid

Damn you salary!) You just take the good with the bad bt it's a nice place to work with a great atmosphere and good benefits so worth it overall!!

BNMC · 09-01-2014 11:58pm

My workplace is so laid back that sometimes I feel guilty for taking a weeks wage. Routine is in at 8, cup of tea first then start at 8:30, tea break at 10 to 10:45, dinner at 1-2, then it's time for another cup of tea at 4:30 before we all leave at 5. This is not taking into account all the chats and messing that goes on, which is a lot. So all in all I'd say we average 5 hours per day productivity.

Sometimes I'd be late and mightn't get in until 9 but nobody notices or cares. The managers don't care and don't want the hassle of falling out with people.

I hate the job and I'm leaving in September to go to college but the laid back nature of this job will be hard to find again.

Specialun · 10-01-2014 12:06am

Aidric wrote: »

Is this the HSE chatforum? 4 hours productivity in a day? That's a sackable offense where I'm concerned.

Some jobs have alot of admin tasks....completely depends on whether or not you consider admin tasks as productive

holystungun9 · 10-01-2014 12:20am

green_screen wrote: »

I'm productive for 8 and a half hours out of a nine hour shift. The missing half hour is my break. I try to be as productive as possible because I work alone and get bored or lonely otherwise

Prostitute?

Cian92 · 10-01-2014 12:30am

Work 8.5 hours a day and of that 55 minutes are breaks. Productive for 7 hours 35 minutes. Counts are taken on the hour, we really aren't given a chance to take 5 minutes to ourselves outside of our breaks.

Stheno · 10-01-2014 12:33am

I'm supposed to do a 40 hour week, but regularly do more than that.

As most of my work is face to face, there is little opportunity for dossing.

I'm a consultant but have loads of admin so the more consulting I do, the more extra time I have to spend of my free time on admin

I once had a job where we got bonuses for logging work time above 120%

Legs.Eleven · 10-01-2014 12:34am

I teach about 5 hours a day on average and plan classes for an hour and a half a day. I'd be productive for all of that as you can't hide for a snooze in the toilet with your head on your coat on the sanitary bin like I could in previous jobs while you're in a classroom staring at students, unfortunately. If I'm feeling lazy or couldn't be arsed with the "Enthusiastic Teacher" buzz, we do listening and I can sit there and stare blankly in to space while they probably do the same. Win win for everyone.

debabyjesus · 10-01-2014 12:40am

I do 12 hour shifts. Sometimes productive for 12 hours, sometimes 0 hours. On average about 5/6 hours from 12. Just the nature of the job but I do try to do as little as possible.

Kirby · 10-01-2014 12:51am

Aidric wrote: »

Is this the HSE chatforum? 4 hours productivity in a day? That's a sackable offense where I'm concerned.

He's being honest.

In every job I've had there have been people who are performing their work to a poor standard, people dossing, and people day dreaming every day. These guys would all deny it like you might and lots in here are doing, but it is what it is. Even the best workers space out for a few minutes here and there. It's human nature.

There are few people who have the discipline to concentrate for 8 hours straight. You either have to genuinely enjoy what you are doing or be a rare robot.

Limecube · 10-01-2014 12:54am

Have my own IT dev company with 9 employees, hopefully growing to 11 this month. A while back, we decided to go for a four day week, taking every Monday off. We dealt with it, by adding an extra 52 days holidays to each employee's contract, mandating that they are taken on a Monday. So we try and do our best to not flute around and get a weeks realistic work done between Tue-Fri. Its worked really well for us, and staff retention has been excellent.

So to answer the question, when we're in work, we're working. When we're in the pub, we're drinking!

tomwaterford · 10-01-2014 12:57am

BNMC wrote: »

My workplace is so laid back that sometimes I feel guilty for taking a weeks wage. Routine is in at 8, cup of tea first then start at 8:30, tea break at 10 to 10:45, dinner at 1-2, then it's time for another cup of tea at 4:30 before we all leave at 5. This is not taking into account all the chats and messing that goes on, which is a lot. So all in all I'd say we average 5 hours per day productivity.

Sometimes I'd be late and mightn't get in until 9 but nobody notices or cares. The managers don't care and don't want the hassle of falling out with people.

I hate the job and I'm leaving in September to go to college but the laid back nature of this job will be hard to find again.

HARD!!!!!
try impossible,it sounds cool though:cool:

kingtut · 10-01-2014 12:58am

11 hour day (usually) of which 10 are productive (or 11 if I'm too busy to take a break)

Galwayguy35 · 10-01-2014 3:26am

Work an 8 hour day and there is an hours break taken out of that so would be working non stop for the other 7 hours.

Its a physical job and there is always a supervisor on the floor and 12 cameras which show what is going on to the managers in the office so no room for slacking.

It's better to be busy anyway as the day goes quicker and I hate lazy people.

Duffy the Vampire Slayer · 10-01-2014 3:42am

Very low productivity but I find that putting in a lot of effort doesn't achieve anything so I don't bother. And nobody notices or cares.

Oranage2 · 10-01-2014 4:08am

I work 30 hours a week and probably productive for 18 of those hours.

60% productivity

Ficheall · 10-01-2014 4:19am

I did absolutely no work today and feel guilty about it - on Tuesday I spent the entire day reading research papers and neither produced anything nor understood anything new at the end of the day. And no one has checked on anything I've done in about 2 months.
I wish I had a better work ethic

tacofries · 10-01-2014 4:22am

im productive 100 % of the time.. Hate doing nothing and like being busy :P The fact that were usually understaffed and tend not too get breaks a lot helps the fact

Whats your productivity at work?

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