How many hours in a work week?
It is Sunday afternoon and I was considering logging into the company network and checking up on email which got me thinking. It got me thinking about how many hours I work each week and how efficiently those hours are spent, so I decided to figure it out. I estimated that I spend 12 hours of the week in meetings, 4 hours in meeting overflow, about 8 hours architecting other peoples code or helping people and about 4 hours reviewing other peoples code which leaves 12 hours or 1.5 days of actual work (assuming a 40 hour week, which is not the case). Added on top of this some weeks we have corporation update meetings and various upper management meetings to push information down. How is it that a company can live with this much time waste.
No wonder I leave work many days feeling like I got nothing done, it’s because I did not. BTW I did not log in and I plan to spend the rest of the day relaxing with my wife.
How many hours of your work day are used for actual work? How can more time during the day be used for your work?
