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Re:Work Stress: How the 42% Rule Could Help You Recover from... by 9dev on Wednesday January 05, 2022 @09:32AM (#29809398)
As if most people would really spend 8-9 hours a day working. Most people get payed for 8 hours, but actually work 3-4 hours per day, at most. The rest of the day is spent idling, procrastinating, or socialising - and all of that is important to stay healthy. Bottom line, humans are no equations and there is more to it than "nice" numbers.
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Re:Work Stress: How the 42% Rule Could Help You Recover from... by PragmaticPulp on Wednesday January 05, 2022 @09:37AM (#29809449)
> The rest of the day is spent idling, procrastinating, or socialising

I agree that most people don’t actually work with 100% efficiency, but I disagree that everyone is procrastinating for 4-5 hours every day.

That much procrastination is the norm at certain companies, but try it at a tightly-run company and you’ll quickly fall behind your peers.

Note that communications, e-mail, and meetings really are “work” even if programmers often don’t count them. However, straight up procrastination is definitely not work.

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Re:Work Stress: How the 42% Rule Could Help You Recover from... by thenerdhead on Wednesday January 05, 2022 @09:35AM (#29809426)
Yeah. 8 hours allocated for work. Stopping after ~3 hours or 37%. Totally agreed that what is allocated doesn't get used and there's no nice numbers since law of averages.
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