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Re:Four-day week means 'I don't waste holidays on chores' by rightbyte on Wednesday December 30, 2020 @01:23PM (#25584374)
For most kind of boring programming tasks I can't do more than 3h a day. Maybe that would go to 4h with a 4 day week?

It was first when Covid19 WFH hit I realized how few hour a day I actually "work". It was hidden by meetings and discussions at the office I guess.

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Re:Four-day week means 'I don't waste holidays on chores' by gambiting on Wednesday December 30, 2020 @03:41PM (#25585835)
Right, but those meetings and discussions are part of work as well. It's not just coding that counts.
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Re:Four-day week means 'I don't waste holidays on chores' by rightbyte on Wednesday December 30, 2020 @04:03PM (#25586076)
Sure I didn't mean that they are not part of my duties but that they hid my "bad" endurance at coding.

Regarding meetings maybe half the time in meetings is of no use for me and I am of no use for the others at the meeting but I still need to be there is the topic changes. The single biggest productivity improvement in WFH is that I can just work during uninteresting parts of meetings without being rude.

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