Asklemmy

I start working the moment I come to work and finish work when the place is closed, 6-12h. I work in a kitchen. Only times there might not be work is during the quiet season when we've managed to do a deep clean already the day before. But mostly I only work and then rest on my days off these days.

Only time I have for even thinking about my hobbies and friends are when I get two days off in a row once a month. Probably going to have to look for a new job before I burn out. These comments about only working for a couple hours a day are really making me envious.

most days i work 3 hours then slack off for 5

I spend maybe 30 minutes doing actual work on average. Then once a blue moon I get off my ass and finish my assigned projects in like 3 hours and continue to do nothing.

So I work 12 but because I'm a night nurse a lot of the time it's just being there and monitoring, then occasionally doing something if the monitoring indicates the need. And particularly in psychiatry, a lot of the monitoring is passive. Sure I'll go personally check on people every few hours (the techs do 15 minute checks) but a lot of my monitoring is poking my head out of the nursing station to whisper-yell "WHAT THE FUCK IS THAT NOISE" or jumping up when the floorstaff move too fast (some of our security who know me well will actually frantically gesture at me to sit the fuck back down they're just showing their buddy a meme they got excited about).

I've been at work an hour and haven't done anything. I have some things to work on but they aren't due for a week or so and I can finish them fairly fast so no point rushing.

I usually spend the morning catching up on news and relaxing until 10 then work until lunch, depending on whether I get my tasks done for the day I'll continue working after lunch or go back to nothing. Some times I get to go out for site visits so that's fun and eats up part of my day. Spent 40 minutes talking to some old lady named Flo about her garden yesterday on a site visit.

When we're busy we're busy and I work hard but summers are always slow and my boss is wfh today.

Really depends on the day, tbh. Sometimes I'm on calls and training all day. Sometime shit really blows up and needs to be repaired.

But many days, not much. We could easily go to a four day workweek and I'd still get all my shit done.

11-13 hours total. I average a six-anna-half hour shift waiting tables, an hour-anna-half active commute, and about four hours of housework.

Most days, honestly, about 2-3 hours. I'm not working at all today. Although, some days come by and I put down a solid 10-12 hours without asking for overtime.

Everyone at my job thinks I'm overworked and doing a great job though. But I think it's just a balance. I work hard some days without complaining and I get to mostly chill the others. Best part is that I work remotely, but I'm not working in tech so I don't collect those fat checks. That's another trade. Great work-life balance, but not much money. Worth it though.

Technically 0 hours a day. Anyone wanna hire an unemployed mediocre programmer?

Hours?

Factory work for me, so ~12 hours per day, 4 or 5 days per week

It really depends. I do catering so some days there just isn't a job. When I have a gig it's usually 8-10 hours, but only maybe 2-6 of those are actually cooking and serving, the rest is logistics, prep and cleaning.

From my daily 7,5h I‘d say about 3h of meetings and 2h of work

I work in the LTL freight industry in the US so I'm supposed to be working about 8 hours but lately it's been about 10 and change

Good news is I get time and a half whenever I pass 8 hours on a shift

Bad news is my sleep quality has gone to shit

As an aside the reason for all the OT is because of YRC going under, suddenly all the freight they were hauling is getting off loaded onto other companies.

The boss today said that the mandatory OT is, "Only going to last for the foreseeable future." He has such a way with words, the moment he speaks he just kills the vibe.

Well yesterday I was on the clock for 12.5 hours, 7 hrs was spent operating equipment, ~3hrs on prep and clean up and the rest of the time was spent waiting for the next task. A pretty typical day for me. Today is my last day of my 5 days on and I have 4 days off.

8-10 hours a day. I have my own company so there's always something to do. Sometimes I play Cities when it's real slow and I'm caught up on paperwork but that's not really that often.

I set aside the first 3-4 hours of the day for creative work, things that require intense focus. Sometimes that's exhausting and I might not do anything else except replying to messages or meetings. Total work time is around 6-7 hours. That's a sustainable cadence.

I'm rejecting meetings in the morning because those golden hours are far too precious to squander on conversation.

0-8 hours, really depends on the day and projects on my plate.

I’ve been on the upper end of that for the last 4 months because I got suckered into planning a conference. 🙃

11.. typically no breaks lunch. Often 9 hours of meetings day..making under 6 figures in a business role

I work somewhere between 1-5 hours a day... I love my job

I feel like I work about 2 hours a day some days. Meetings and slack are distractions as well as ADHD tendencies. There's so much overhead involved in working for a company that it makes sense. If I just had specs and and interesting problem to solve, I could easily get lost in my work for 8 hours. But that rarely is the case.

Naw, work as little as possible while still convincing your manager you're productive, that's what most of them do.

Hours worked is a silly metric anyways. There are some cases where it makes sense, but it should be measured by productivity.

I've had times where I've gotten more work done in the first 4 hours of the day than I normally get done in 3-4 days. The system is totally screwed and employers are lazy and want easy ways to measure their employees.

It's complicated, but the moral of the story is, never work more than you have to. Never forget that if you're not getting overtime pay, then you are donating your labor and time for free to your employer. They are getting lots of value for absolutely nothing in return.

And don't be fooled by the corporate propaganda about being recognized for your efforts or some such crap, it's bogus. 95% of the time the best you can hope for is a pat on the back for your "good work" maybe if you're really lucky, you'll get a company branded coffee mug or even a $10 gift card to Starbucks...

Multiple times at different companies my actions directly saved the company thousands of dollars and in one case possibly a person's job. What did I get for that? Jack squat, zero compensation or bonus, no extra time off, nothing. I got a shout out in a Teams meeting for, "stepping up and being a team player." Capitalist corporate garbage.

barely 10 mins a day, im 17 and on summer so just gettinf fucjed up honestly

I’ve been tracking my time with Toggl, so I can answer that with surprising amount of detail and confidence.

I took my time data from 2022, and made a bunch of calculations with it. The results are: 3:41-7:52 hours per day. The median and average were both 5:54. Ooh, looks like this data might actually follow the normal distribution after all! Anyway, that range covers 80% of the distribution, so extremely short and long days fall in the 20% that’s outside of that range.

In this calculation I’ve counted as working all the meetings, casual chitchat, normal work, organizing and all the random administration clutter. Commutes, lunches and time wasted in social media time don’t count as work.

maybe 2 hours max. most of my job is sitting and waiting and playing games on my phone. its tough hard work but it pays the bills

I've had days of maybe 15 minutes of actual work, and 10 hour days. very variable. I used to have a job paid 8 hours with literally 45 minutes of work a day. loved it, despite the low pay. way before WFH times though so it was a lot of time looking busy

I spend about half my day or more at work playing videos games on my Steam Deck. And this is the busy season. Come winter, we won't have anything to do.

I make more than the average for my area, and I work weekdays, nine to five. It's a pretty good gig. The last week I've basically been paid to play Baldur's Gate 3.

I do design and tech support for industry. Official hours are 7,5h/day (lunch is off-duty). 3 days in office 2 days remotely. My actual workload varies a lot. If everything works and all resources are in use, I might not have anything to do for weeks on end. If shit hits the fan, I'm on overtime working 10h days, using every second.

I might quess that on average 2h/day of actual work and varying part of this are communally beneficial activities I invent for myself to keep myself busy.