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> I work a normal 8-hour day

I'm "around on Teams/Slack" for ~7 hours a day but I 100% have not worked 8 hours a day in years. Am I the only one? Am I the minority? Am I the majority?

If I go to 60 minutes of meetings a day, it's a lot.

If I write 80 lines of code, it's a lot.

If I research 1-2 production issues, it's a lot.

If I write 20 Teams messages/3 e-mails, it's a lot.




This is quite normal in fact. However all the other stuff certainly counts as "work" also. Don't let anyone tell you otherwise.


Ages ago, someone (I forgot who) argued that nobody really worked more than 2 hours a day. Most of the rest of our work is either waiting, hanging around, or pointless busywork. I'm sure it's not true for every job, but I'm pretty sure there's a lot of unnecessary inefficiency in our work.

On the other hand, lots of people like those inefficiencies: a chat at the watercooler, talking about how your weekend was, etc. And those are certainly better for your mental health than the pointless meetings some managers would love to pad your schedule with.




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