How Tech Companies Own Your Day

Re:How Tech Companies Own Your Day by dustfinger on Friday April 13, 2018 @05:46PM (#16834162)

Who are these people that only work 3.8 hr per day and get 8.8 hr of sleep. I am lucky to get more than 5.5 hr of sleep and I work far more than 3.8 hr per day. Sounds like the average joe has it made. Oh where did I go wrong :-P

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Re:How Tech Companies Own Your Day by leggomylibro on Friday April 13, 2018 @05:52PM (#16834206)

Maybe they live near the families which have 2.5 children, but the article does cite its sources such as:

https://www.bls.gov/tus/tables.htm

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Re:How Tech Companies Own Your Day by haZard_OS on Friday April 13, 2018 @10:14PM (#16835467)

This is pretty clearly a case of the mean conveying little useful information. Children, elderly, and the unemployed skew the data way too much for the average to be a meaningful summary.

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Re:How Tech Companies Own Your Day by Maultasche on Friday April 13, 2018 @06:54PM (#16834621)

I suspect that's an average of people who work full-time, people who work part-time, and people who don't work at all, such as unemployed, retirees, and children.

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Re:How Tech Companies Own Your Day by OtterCoder on Friday April 13, 2018 @09:52PM (#16835368)

One of the big factors is actually weekends. 40hrs/7days = 5.7hrs/day.

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Re:How Tech Companies Own Your Day by abledon on Friday April 13, 2018 @08:33PM (#16835122)

They're on Hacker News:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14290518

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