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Re:Average Office Worker Spends Less Than 3 Hours of the Day... by josephjrobison on Tuesday February 19, 2019 @08:36AM (#19198828)
Unrelated but kind of related - when people hire freelancers, they may seem expensive by the hour compared to a full timer, but when you take into account this stat, that doubles the per hour cost of your full time employee, which makes hiring freelancers a bit more attractive.
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Re:Average Office Worker Spends Less Than 3 Hours of the Day... by Veen on Tuesday February 19, 2019 @08:47AM (#19198886)
As a freelancer, you can bet that I factor my lack of productivity into my hourly rates.
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Re:Average Office Worker Spends Less Than 3 Hours of the Day... by mcv on Tuesday February 19, 2019 @08:43AM (#19198861)
Unless freelancers are equally subject to this, and I don't see why they wouldn't be.
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Re:Average Office Worker Spends Less Than 3 Hours of the Day... by analreceiver on Tuesday February 19, 2019 @10:12AM (#19199434)
When using platforms like Upwork, they are constantly being monitored and screen captures are taken to make sure the hours being charged are work hours.
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Re:Average Office Worker Spends Less Than 3 Hours of the Day... by serpi on Tuesday February 19, 2019 @10:33AM (#19199593)
How can a screen capture capture thinking?
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Re:Average Office Worker Spends Less Than 3 Hours of the Day... by TeMPOraL on Tuesday February 19, 2019 @10:50AM (#19199732)
Which is invasive and also about as relevant to actual work as "butts-in-seat" metric is for meatspace offices.
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Re:Average Office Worker Spends Less Than 3 Hours of the Day... by mcv on Tuesday February 19, 2019 @11:02AM (#19199850)
Sounds awful. Do people use that?
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