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I love making my clients profitable, which in turn pays my salary. So whatever it takes within reason.
Yooo neat!
I work 70 hours a week. I’m productive for 69 of those hours.
Nice (insert southpark meme here)
20. The remaining 40-50 I'm in meetings where I zone out
20 hours max
If you think you were 100% productive when you were in the office you are kidding yourself.
If we deliver on time and meet/ exceed expectations why would productive time spent matter?
Are you producing quality work? Is your client pleased?
I know some people can’t wait to get back to the office… and I get that. WFH is not for everyone. I’ll still come in to the office if I am needed there but I spent plenty of unproductive hours 100s of miles from home when I didn’t need to.
I’ll WFH forever if I can. I see my kids everyday, didn’t have to pay for camp this year, and I am 10x less stressed than I used to be. The benefits for me are literally endless.
Rant complete😂
I’m here, too. I loved the office but I’m healthier at home, kids are seeing me more (and I’m happy about that!). WFH has been awesome for me and I was totally against it before
20. The rest is unnecessary meetings and time I used to spend socializing with coworkers that I now spend playing with my kid.
Probably 20-30 productive depending on the week.
Was doing fine until the lead scheduled meetings on Friday. I’d say about 20 solid hours. The rest of the time is in pointless meetings that can be put into an email and research.
20
20
20 hrs.. maybe 25 tops! Even before the whole WFH lifestyle, that's about it.. maybe that's why I missed my last promotion! 😄
20h max as well!
10-15
2
Some weeks? Like 5-10
Others, legitimately 60+
Work when there's work to do
Not that I am getting older, about 15 seconds
Lol... 40-55 but that's spread out over 7 days... Not like there's much choice at the bottom of the totem pole... 😂
If it makes you feel any better, I'm in the same boat.
For me, about 40-60% of hours worked. Let me explain.
Productivity as term used to describe consulting work can be relative, so not sure this is the best way to ask it. I.e. If a manager spends all of Monday clearing out their inbox and all of Tuesday reviewing and providing feedback on junior team members outputs. They could claim both days were equally productive. Possibly one could yeild better results, or both tasks could yield equally positive results or vice versa.
Another example - spending 5hrs/9hrs day doing some dumb shit (analysis that clearly wouldn't lead to a quality enough conclusion) a more senior person asks to do. It could be useless but they could interprete it as productive use of time from their perspective.
I suspect you're asking how many hours do we spend working on items that creates quality outcomes (either self development, firm development, client development, or a combination of). If so, for me, it is about 40-60% of the hours I work in a week. The rest goes to others tasks (building relationships, meditating, excerising, eating, thinking breaks, etc) that help maximizes the outcomes of those tasks done in my 40-60%.
45 hours a week
20- productive.