How many hours do people effectively work when WFH? If I used to be in the office for ~9 hours a day including breakfast, lunch and chit chats, how does that translate to WFH hours? Should I feel bad if I work (productively) on average 5-6 hours a day? I work in Tech program management fwiw

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What took me 8 hours in the office takes me anywhere from 3-4 at home. But workload has also increased. Still I’d say an average day can be done in 5-6 hours.

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I think about this a lot. I think it’s a reality of remote work that has not been widely acknowledged - there used to be a lot of cushion in the in-person 40 hour work week. I still need that cushion so if I’m actually billing 8+ hours in a day then my work schedule has expanded to be longer.

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If you look at how much time you actually spend focusing on your work, even when working in the office, surely it’s not exactly 8 hours. For timesheets and billing purposes we always consider it 40 hours a week on technicalities, but 5-6 hours of productive work sounds about right.

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As few as possible to get away with…

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You shouldn’t feel bad… I don’t.

I’d say I was doing 4-6 productive hours before covid but now I’m doing 9 full productive hours, and it’s friking killing me. 8-5 with some interruptions, breaks between meetings, a lunch break, etc., was doable. Nonstop video meetings for the 9 hour period between 8-5 is awful.

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What would happen if you didn’t join video and just audio?

4-6 hours is completely reasonable as long as you’re getting your work done.

It’s lost in the consulting world that some people just work faster than others. What takes one person 4 hours could take another person 2 hours. Don’t fret about how much time you’re putting in, but rather than your workload is reasonable and you’re getting it done.

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I’ve been working from home since 2015. Took me about a year to get comfortable with 1) not being chained to computer all day, and 2) really assessing how much wasted time was in a typical day at the office - and being very honest with myself about productivity and that I was still getting as much (or more) done in the day when WFH. I also started baking in time to socialize with colleagues during the work day - turning a teams chat into a quick “can you talk?,” calling work friends when I know they’re driving home, sharing dumb memes… Those social elements have been really important to maintain relationships, and you have to find a way to manufacture them since you’re not getting it in casual water-cooler interactions.

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I think 5 ~6 hours of productive work is reasonable.

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