How many hours of actual work do you do a day?

Mister Vain

I'd say I do about 5 or 6. Sometimes I'm waiting on work to come in or I'm waiting on paper work to be released. I used to work on a production line and it was always constant unless the machine broke down.

myshirt

Can see this descending into a public sector bashing thread...

*grabs popcorn*

qo2cj1dsne8y4k

About 8. If I'm not doing my *actual* job, I'll be answering the phones, replying to emails, sorting out rosters and admin stuff and cleaning. Take an hour out then for chatting, discussing Geordie shore, places to eat and what we did at the weekend.

Teyla Emmagan

About 5. Most of the day I'm just waiting to go home. I would spend the entire day chatting (by email) to one or two people and hitting refresh on my phone the rest.

I'm a gem of an employee.

Peregrine

I'm only really productive for about fifteen minutes a day.

Ted_YNWA

I do about 15 hours.

Thinking about work is still work right

http://dilbert.com/strip/2016-01-15

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

Define 'work'. I'm retired and do about 7 hours work 6 days a week.

failinis

About an hour or two a day.

cantdecide

Interaction Client and hourly producivity targets ensure I give every drop of blood for my €9 #phonefarmlife

Tigger

11x5

diomed

Retired. I put in about 10 hours a day on my boring hobby.

ArtSmart

I'd sat the average is 5/8 of paid time.

Both in public and private.

But realistically, that's about all most folk can manage, without messing up.

Humans are not programmed to work efficiently for more than around 5 hours in a 12 hours period, IMO.

ArtSmart

By 'work' I mean achieving the job description criteria or related criteria.

Not, 'looking busy;.

On mature reflection I'd say it's more 4 hrs than 5.

dr.fuzzenstein

I just stare at my desk but it looks like I'm working. I do that for probably another hour after lunch too. I'd probably, say, in a given week, I probably do about fifteen minutes of real, actual work.

ArtSmart

dr.fuzzenstein wrote: »

I just stare at my desk but it looks like I'm working. I do that for probably another hour after lunch too. I'd probably, say, in a given week, I probably do about fifteen minutes of real, actual work.

Well in a number of jobs, the 'crucial' element can seem like 15mins

But there does tend to be lead in, and lead out times for the 15 min of crucial work to exist .

MyPeopleDrankTheSoup

i'm a self-employed computer programmer. i use software called rescuetime to monitor productivity. it says i log about 60-70 hours in front of the PC a week and about 30%-40% of that is productive. so about 20-30 hours a week of real, actual work. i'm happy with that and convinced it's more than the median.

i find some people know they take breaks every now and then but get stuff done in the end. then there's another crowd who lie to themselves that they're working hard, telling everybody they're up the walls and doing nothing, staying late, etc. i'd like to see their rescuetime stats because the numbers don't lie.

PLL

ArtSmart wrote: »

Humans are not programmed to work efficiently for more than around 5 hours in a 12 hours period, IMO.

Totally agree with this. That is if you work five solid hours. The last few become gibberish and in need of dinner.

Tipperary Fairy

dr.fuzzenstein wrote: »

I just stare at my desk but it looks like I'm working. I do that for probably another hour after lunch too. I'd probably, say, in a given week, I probably do about fifteen minutes of real, actual work.

I work(ed) with a woman who spent between 4 & 6 hours of the day staring at her computer screen, with some document open, obviously thinking no one would notice that she wasn't doing anything. Everybody knows.

As to how anyone can continue to go to work and do that, I don't know. I'd rather shoot myself. But well done you, duping someone into paying you to do nothing. You must be so proud.

Mister Vain

ArtSmart wrote: »

Humans are not programmed to work efficiently for more than around 5 hours in a 12 hours period, IMO.

Tell that to the doctors working in hospitals.

Mehaffey1

10 hours a day 8 days on 2 or 3 off normally.

thattequilagirl

Mister Vain wrote: »

I'd say I do about 5 or 6. Sometimes I'm waiting on work to come in or I'm waiting on paper work to be released. I used to work on a production line and it was always constant unless the machine broke down.

On a good day, I'd say I'm productive for 6 of the 8.5 hours I'm at work. I find that I work best when I have meetings spaced out during the day - if I have to sit at my desk for the entire day, I'd say my productivity drops.

Wanderer78

A lot of work and workplaces are dehumanizing in nature, largely due to neoclassical theory. No wonder many are doing 'very little'.

Agent Smyth

Used to work 8 to 10 hours a day, 6 sometimes 7 days a week.
90% of that would have been productive, when your the boss you wear many hats and don't get much free time
I took redundancy a few years back and now work about 15 hours a week all of it productive
Most days now I feel like a "pig in sh1te" and would never go back to full employment

CarrickMcJoe

diomed wrote: »

Retired. I put in about 10 hours a day on my boring hobby.

Thought you said HUBBY...

wokingvoter

I'm employed 6 hours per day so, including humouring other people in the workplace ( in a roundabout way it's part of my job) I'd say I'm actually working for about 4 hours

Saturday, Sunday, Monday - Zero.
Tuesday - Four.
Wednesday - Four.
Thursday - Five.
Friday - Six.

That's in the classroom. When I'm not teaching, I'm not there.

Galwayguy35

When I work days have to keep going for the 8 hours, working evenings is easier less people around so while we would be still doing work it's at a lot slower pace.

crazygeryy

myshirt wrote: »

Can see this descending into a public sector bashing thread...

*grabs popcorn*

Did u actually grab popcorn and eat it? Did you?

Adyx

I work different hours every day but usually between 8 and 10 hours. Those are the actual work hours too since I rarely take breaks and it's not the kind of job you can pretend to be doing.

theteal

Projects, meetings and dealing with incidents are really cutting unto my procrastination time these days. I'm only getting about 30 mins of boards/shooting the sh!t time in since moving to the parent company. I think I'll need a sit-down with the new gaffer!

j.s. pill II

I work in India right now and at present, I work from about 8 to 7 but - I take a 2-3 hour lunch as my precious bodily fluids would probably evaporate if I attempted to work between 12 and 3 (though it is a a nice cool 38c today).

Some people work seriously long hours here but overall productivity is somewhat questionable. Oftentimes, you'll have 2-3 people doing a job that would usually be done by one person at home. For example, they still have bus conductors; a truck driver will be assisted by a 'truck boy' who sits in the passanger seat and looks out the left window to make sure the driver doesn't mow down any motorcyclists - also charged with making sure the driver doesn't fall asleep on long journeys; a lot of small shops will have 2-3 lads sitting behind the counter when 1 would clearly suffice. Well, labour is dirt cheap here so it kind of makes sense.

The 2 boys who work in the hardware shop down the road from me work 8-8 6 days a week but most of the day is comprised of sitting around and shooting the breeze with their mates who come to she shop to hang out. Nice work if you can get it!

Utah

Maybe 5 hours in an 8 hour 30 min work day?
I'd say that's average!

Hemerodrome

About 4/8, but the nature of my job consists of having answers ready for other people to do measurable work and doing little of that myself. I could probably be replaced by an app if they knew how easy it really is, but I stroke my chin and exhale noisily before every answer to keep 'em fooled for another day.

maudgonner

In general I would say around 7, with the odd day that runs much later depending on deadlines.

The last few months things have been much slower. Probably do 4-5 hours of actual work, the rest of the time waiting for computers to do stuff, or just dossing. It's driving my slightly batty. Hence why I spend so much time on Boards lately!

smash

Quality over quantity!

I'll keep telling myself that...

smurfjed

My work day normally starts with some excitement, followed by lots of time looking out the window watching the world go by, followed by another brief period of excitement..... tonight i will be lucky enough to have even more excitement than usual because of crappy weather with thunderstorms....

thegreatgonzo

Depends on the day. I work in 2 different vet clinics so in one of them I start at about 10 to 9 in the morning and might get out at 8 that night but it's usually closer to 9. I get an hour lunch break but other than that it's constant work. The other clinic is closer to my home so I fit that around my farm work and some of the work for that clinic I can do at home too. I've never actually counted how much time I spend doing farm work including paperwork.

beks101

I work in a pretty fast-paced environment and I'm "on" for the eight hours I'm in there out of necessity.

We all eat lunch at our desk while we work and if I even attempted to switch off or check my personal emails or something for more than five minutes, I'd probably miss something and it would be obvious to the whole team.

That said I have the privilege of largely switching off once I'm out of the office so don't tend to think about work until the next morning most of the time, which I never had in previous jobs. That makes it easier for my brain to reboot and to perform solidly for those eight hours.

DamagedTrax

i work on a project basis, so while i may do a 7 day week of 12 hours stints, i could be off for 7 days afterwards.

Antar Bolaeisk

Depends on the day, I was suffering from what I can only describe as the opposite of writers block (severe bout of inspiration?) at the weekend and ended up going in on both Friday and Saturday for about 8 hours each day and being productive for those hours.

Of course today I ended up in a meeting for an hour and chatting to the boss for about two hours then daydreaming about my holiday on Thursday for the other seven.

Adyx

smurfjed wrote: »

My work day normally starts with some excitement, followed by lots of time looking out the window watching the world go by, followed by another brief period of excitement..... tonight i will be lucky enough to have even more excitement than usual because of crappy weather with thunderstorms....

Are you a cat?

diomed

dr.fuzzenstein wrote: »

I just stare at my desk but it looks like I'm working. I do that for probably another hour after lunch too. I'd probably, say, in a given week, I probably do about fifteen minutes of real, actual work.

Always carry a page of A4 when walking. It looks like you are going somewhere to do something.

Corruptedmorals

6 and a half-7 hours when breaks are taken out of it. It's constant in HSE admin!

Mint Sauce

In a 12 hr shift, could work 11+ of them, the remaining hour is lunch and two tea breaks if i'm lucky.

The health sector is no doss.