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Re:One-third of tech workers admit to working only 3 to 4 ho... by eru on Wednesday January 27, 2021 @07:55AM (#25927623)
That's an interesting definition. I'm not sure it's useful.

Eg when I am oncall out of hours, I could browse HN almost all the time, but it is still low-intensity work, even if nothing breaks and pages on that day.

Re:One-third of tech workers admit to working only 3 to 4 ho... by srtjstjsj on Wednesday January 27, 2021 @08:30AM (#25927972)
Oncall is a bit special, usually counted as partial time work for time spent not responding to calls, or with overtime rates for time actually called in.
Re:One-third of tech workers admit to working only 3 to 4 ho... by eru on Thursday January 28, 2021 @01:30AM (#25938894)
At Google SRE we had a flat ratio regardless of whether you had a page or not.

The idea was two-fold: reduces paperwork, and incentivizes the SRE team to reduce alerts that have to be dealt with.

In any case, my main point was that anything that prevents me from having a beer or going bungee jumping is 'work' in my books. Though, obviously, there are different levels of intensity.