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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.
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.
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.
As few as possible to get away with…
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.
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.
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.
I think 5 ~6 hours of productive work is reasonable.