If you work from home, how many hours do you actually work?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Millennials seem to have gotten used to full time work from home jobs where they actually only work a couple hours per day. No one actually works the full 8 hours.

My friends have various mouse shakers, spouses checking emails to see if an unscheduled call or meeting is scheduled when worker is out and not home.

How many hours do you actually work in a day?

More than I ever do when I go in the office and get hijacked into conversation at every turn.

[Anonymous]

I work more hours at home lately, because I don’t have to commute and I have a LOT of work to do.

People that aren’t working at home don’t have enough work.

[Anonymous]

Acting like people going into the office can’t just surf the internet all day or take a long lunch and 3 coffee breaks a day. Sitting in an office is not a job.

TRUTH! When I was supervising, we had one who would walk the floors and chit chat all morning, take 2-hour lunches and work an hour before they left for the day ...another who would amazon shop and do their travel side gig all day and YES, they were disciplined and left before failing their PIPs.

I work from home twice a pay period so I'd say a good 6+ hours for me.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Acting like people going into the office can’t just surf the internet all day or take a long lunch and 3 coffee breaks a day. Sitting in an office is not a job.

TRUTH! When I was supervising, we had one who would walk the floors and chit chat all morning, take 2-hour lunches and work an hour before they left for the day ...another who would amazon shop and do their travel side gig all day and YES, they were disciplined and left before failing their PIPs.

I work from home twice a pay period so I'd say a good 6+ hours for me.

[Anonymous]

Acting like people going into the office can’t just surf the internet all day or take a long lunch and 3 coffee breaks a day. Sitting in an office is not a job.

TRUTH! When I was supervising, we had one who would walk the floors and chit chat all morning, take 2-hour lunches and work an hour before they left for the day ...another who would amazon shop and do their travel side gig all day and YES, they were disciplined and left before failing their PIPs.

I work from home twice a pay period so I'd say a good 6+ hours for me.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Millennials seem to have gotten used to full time work from home jobs where they actually only work a couple hours per day. No one actually works the full 8 hours.

My friends have various mouse shakers, spouses checking emails to see if an unscheduled call or meeting is scheduled when worker is out and not home.

How many hours do you actually work in a day?

I did fully remote two years I say on average I spent 1-2 hours a day working.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Millennials seem to have gotten used to full time work from home jobs where they actually only work a couple hours per day. No one actually works the full 8 hours.

My friends have various mouse shakers, spouses checking emails to see if an unscheduled call or meeting is scheduled when worker is out and not home.

How many hours do you actually work in a day?

I mean, boomers and genxers didn't exaclty work the full 8 hours a day in an office, either. Is it your contention people didn't take long lunches, smoke breaks, engage in water cooler gossip, surf the web, etc. back in the day?

My work gets done. I don't watch the clock. I typically start at about 0700 and finish around 1900. And sometimes there are times in the day when I run an errand or whatever.

What's this fixation with romanticizing the past? How we work has fundamentally changed forever. Thank technology for that, which made us more efficient and mobile. There's no really good way to answer this without granting the premise that working in an office meant more "working." No, it just meant more "looking busy."

This. Some people can’t accept the innovations in technology and increased efficiency.

[Anonymous]

Workers work. Slackers slack. Doesn’t matter where it happens. ‘‘Twas ever thus.

[Anonymous]

If anything I work more at home.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If anything I work more at home.

Same, 40-45 at home. No breaks, no walks to other departments.

[Anonymous]

I think I work more from home. If I am into something I can just keep working with no commute ahead of me. I work with people in other time zones so things come up later. Today is my off day but I have a new person working and I am checking in with him for questions. This would not happen if I was not set up here. I did not work 8 full hours a day when in the office. I never tossed laundry in the dryer but I did hear all about lots of people's weekends.

[Anonymous]

I have IBS, so I have to visit the restroom frequently. At home, this is like a two minute interruption, but at work I have to walk five minutes to the nearest bathroom, which will invariably be closed for cleaning, walking another five minutes to the nearest bathroom do my two minutes, and then come back. This adds up to like a lost hour or so a day, just walking around trying to find a loo.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:troll

or a very bitter

It’s the same person who starts these threads complaining about WFH.

[Anonymous]

My husband is a Boomer. He worked 40 hours a week when commuting an hour each way by foot and Metro. Since WFH his work-life boundaries have dissolved and he works at least a few hours a day on weekends and at least 10 hours a day M-F. He loves his profession.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I would say I average about 3-4 hours of solid work a day.

Keep in mind - even before WFH was common, there was a lot of research out there that knowledge/desk workers topped out at about 5-6 hours of solid work a day no matter how many hours they were in the office. So comparing this to 8 hours is a bit silly.

I'm not doing anything weird like a mouse mover or having my spouse check my email. If I'm actually going to be off Slack for more than an hour, I let people know (like if I have a doctor's appointment or have to run an errand or something), but otherwise, I'm always responsive. My bosses are happy with my output and deadlines are getting met. But yeah, I take frequent breaks, and I do thinks like unload the dishwasher, clean the kitchen, sort laundry, etc during my work hours. And that's average - if it's a busy week, it's a busy week, I'll get my stuff done and hit my deadlines. On the other hand, if it's a slow week, I might take a nap.

OP here. I’m a SAHM wanting to go back to work. My youngest is now in elementary but my older kids seem to require more rides than ever. Before I stopped working I used to have a part time job that was 30 hours per week in the office. My boss was ok with me part time because I did more work than people who actually worked full time. I had to cram all this work in the hours I was at the office and I often finished at home because I left to pick up my kids. I definitely got the short end of the stick on that job.

Now it seems like WFH culture is here to stay. I’m hoping I can work full time work from home and work around 25-30 hours per week.

Part of the problem ^^.