Stop Glorifying Hard Work and Long Hours

Re:Stop Glorifying Hard Work and Long Hours by farmdawgnation on Wednesday July 10, 2013 @11:35AM (#6020425)

I think the word "Work" above would be better replaced with "Productivity". It's work/life balance, not productivity/life balance. Every hour I can't do what I want at the drop of a pin because I'm in a place, fulfilling an obligation for my company, or something else along those lines - it's work. If the company puts things like meetings in my way of completing my job in the number of hours I allot to my full time employment, that's their problem, not mine.

Sure, there are exceptions. I'm young and single so I have the luxury of putting in a few hours at home in the evenings if I need to when meeting a deadline. But I don't subtract 5 minutes from my "time spent working" when I check Hacker News while my code is compiling. Am I being productive? No. Am I working? Yes.

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Re:Stop Glorifying Hard Work and Long Hours by easy_rider on Wednesday July 10, 2013 @02:10PM (#6021709)

"But I don't subtract 5 minutes from my "time spent working" when I check Hacker News while my code is compiling. Am I being productive? No. Am I working? Yes."

I would count reading HN as inspirational and thus inclined to lead to better/more productivity/idea's etc. I can count numerous things on HN that lead me to being a better dev. I also used at a lot of interesting tools/tech that came up on HN and that would later fit/solve certain business requirements. So this surely did make me more productive. I would say though this depends on your ability to filter, scan and retain information derived from articles that are often tl;dr.

Also this article in itself is misleading, so reading an article posted on HN on how to be more productive is not considered productive?

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