How many hours during the work day do you actually do productive work?
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A senior engineer on my team is leaving, and our manager sent a link for a farewell gift card. She mentored me when I was a junior, so I want to chip in, but I can't see what others are giving and have never done this before. She makes great money if that matters. The default options are $20, $30, and $50. What's standard here? Is $30 enough, or should I go higher since she helped me so much?
I'm a junior engineer, but I inherited a project mid-construction because the designer left. I wasn't around for the early phases, but now I’m running the site meetings. I'm stressed about the technical gap and being asked questions I don't know the answers to. I don't want to appear clueless in front of the clients, even though I am. Is it okay to say that I don't know, but I will get back to them? Or does that look unprofessional?
In an 8-hour day (gee I wish I was only here for 8 hours), about six "work hours" are actual work. There's a 30-minute lunch break and two 15-minute "stretch breaks." I would guess there's about an hour of downtime wedged in the other seven hours. Of course, I usually come in at least 30 minutes early to prep my desk and go over my to-do list and stay 30-60 minutes late to wrap up what I was working on when the whistle blew and clean up the work area to be ready for the next day.
On a day packed with meetings I would say about two hours and on a day without meetings as much I would say about five hours. When I used to work mainly solo on things I used to say the full 8 but now with a team it’s usually no more than five hours because something or someone is always calling me.
I feel this so much. The amount of meeting at certain times of the year are overwhelming. So many meetings could be an email or email response…
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I start early to get a few productive hours of work before meetings begin
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Different “work cultures” expect absolutely different approach on employee’s productiveness. Chinese working cultures (as i know from my ex Chinese housemate) does require people ro be 101% engaged into workload of “9/9/6” which means from 9am to 9pm monday-saturday. russian corporative culture is even worse. You have to secure or work on a system 24/7 - so if anything is not “in favour” or your Boss than you have to fix it or solve core problem straight away. I came to UK 4 years ago as a political refugee having 13 years of russian cultural experience. Here, in UK, if you text your line manager on a weekend he will be angry as so as he would want to fire you.
I'd say 6 hours (including productive meetings). I usually multitask on worthless Teams calls too.
8 out of 9.5 doing "productive" work. However, productivity slows as the day goes on. I'd say only 3 hours of 100% productive capacity and declines to 20% the last hour. Studies show that is the norm for office work environments. And I try to be the norm.
I had this same question before. Based on my survey people worked 60-70% of the day. I think that's probably lower now since meetings have become more prevalent and can be a big drain for a lot of people.
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