How long is your average work day?

How long is your average work day?

  • Less than 6 hours

    Votes: 19 15.8%

  • 6-8 hours

    Votes: 30 25.0%

  • 8-10 hours

    Votes: 47 39.2%

  • 10-12 hours

    Votes: 19 15.8%

  • More than 12 hours

    Votes: 5 4.2%
  • Total voters
    120
Lupus said:
And in those 8.5 hours how many are you actually working :). Taking into account coffee breaks, strolls to the canteen, meetings and such. This is probably more what they mean by how long is your work day.
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Still productive, strolls to the canteen involve meeting other work people or projects to talk about, meetings are of course required and coffee breaks are often used to talk about work. Although in general one should try to take a break.
 
Lupus said:
Still imagine having the work ethic of Japan, but Spain beats you.
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The statistical "trick" in the data you linked to though is that it depends on number of hours worked (not days, or whole careers.) So if your country's philosophy is "knock off when you're done" then it's super-easy to have a higher hourly productivity than a country that says "sit at your desk 7am to 9pm even though the company's customers are all on holiday today."
 
neoprema said:
Still productive, strolls to the canteen involve meeting other work people or projects to talk about, meetings are of course required and coffee breaks are often used to talk about work. Although in general one should try to take a break.
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Right, forgot you were the one demanding his staff back as soon as possible, even though you're an extreme germaphobe.
Trust me those strolls aren't talking work, you've not stood in a line and heard that 90% of the staff are discussing what they are going to do for lunch, or how was that episode of xxx or whatever. Work is very rarely spoken about at coffee stations or at lunch.
 
Tomtomtom said:
The statistical "trick" in the data you linked to though is that it depends on number of hours worked (not days, or whole careers.) So if your country's philosophy is "knock off when you're done" then it's super-easy to have a higher hourly productivity than a country that says "sit at your desk 7am to 9pm even though the company's customers are all on holiday today."
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Yup that is the thing, it's the same as schools. There are boxes and if you don't fit in the box you aren't right.
Some people are actually more productive at night, some in the morning, some in the afternoon. Problem is now society is trying to cram everyone into the same productivity cycle.
Man I miss the graveyard shift sometime.
 
Lupus said:
Right, forgot you were the one demanding his staff back as soon as possible, even though you're an extreme germaphobe.
Trust me those strolls aren't talking work, you've not stood in a line and heard that 90% of the staff are discussing what they are going to do for lunch, or how was that episode of xxx or whatever. Work is very rarely spoken about at coffee stations or at lunch.
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We're making money, staff are happy, im happy :)
 
neoprema said:
We're making money, staff are happy, im happy :)
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Yeah not sure if staff is happy, but as long as you the boss believes it :-).
I'm sure you're the type of boss to call it a "family" and being back in the office was to sort out culture and all the other middle manager malarkey.
 
Semi-retired (until further notice) so more about chores, gardening with this mad now-like-tropical Jo'burg helps keep us busy. But still way less than 6 hrs. / day.
 
Moosedrool said:
Trend in modern times is to brag about how little you do for how much you earn.

I care about what people achieve rather than how few or many hours you had to spend on achieving it.
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Yup, I have a friend who studied Electrical Engineering, but ended up in a senior sales position for a very well known accounting software company. He constantly brags about how few hours he spends working, and he earns a salary that will make most people green with envy.

As for my own team, I am not a micro manager, and I make it clear whenever someone new joins my team. I ensure members are trained in what they need to do, ensure that they know what is expected of them, and then I let them fly. what I also make clear to my team is that if someone else is busy and you have nothing to do, then you help out. If I notice that someone is putting in extra hours, I would normally sit them down and ask what I can do help them.
 
Lupus said:
And in those 8.5 hours how many are you actually working :). Taking into account coffee breaks, strolls to the canteen, meetings and such. This is probably more what they mean by how long is your work day.
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That's the frustrating part.

Maybe a quarter of that on average, because I get through my work efficiently and then have to pretend to be busy, so I don't get someone else's work given to me.
 
thestaggy said:
That's the frustrating part.

Maybe a quarter of that on average, because I get through my work efficiently and then have to pretend to be busy, so I don't get someone else's work given to me.
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Exactly, most people are productive for 3 hours a day, maybe a bit more. Unless your Neopremas team, they are super duper productive all 9 hours of the day, even while in the loos, talking about work while doing a number 3.
 
When I’m not schitposting, I’m working, so just look at my post history, add up the time you think it takes me to write that, and deduct from 24 hours.
 
Normally a day would be somewhere between 13 and 16 hours. Very very rarely is it less than 12 hours and then stocktake days most likely to be 18 hours.
 
I ran my own business from 1980 until 2015. Out doing jobs from 8:00am until 1:00pm. Sometimes had to do quotes, sometimes a bit of admin in the afternoon

But had plenty of spare time for myself. Being well-organised helps.

Took over a bankrupt locksmith shop in 2001. Took about 18 month to turn it around. All well until 2009 when I found out the book-keeper had been stealing. She stole R190k, mainly liquor she put on the shop account. She went to have a baby and that day the bottle store phoned telling me her order was ready. She had been stealing for 4 years

She was arrested at Mowbray Maternity hospital and spent the long-weekend in police cells. I had her released on the Tuesday and she signed an acknowledgement of debt
 
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