Is this normal in an office?

[VulgarDisplay]

I'm proud to say that I may work about 15 minutes of every hour in middle management a.k.a. hell.

At least doing what I do I try to work 15 minutes of every hour to make up for the 10 hour days getting paid for 8 hours.

I would imagine that most people do the same thing and would work far harder and get more done with 5 hour days.

 

[justoh]

I'm proud to say that I may work about 15 minutes of every hour in middle management a.k.a. hell.

At least doing what I do I try to work 15 minutes of every hour to make up for the 10 hour days getting paid for 8 hours.

I would imagine that most people do the same thing and would work far harder and get more done with 5 hour days.

That's quite a lot. You're one of the more diligent office workers.

I usually come in about 15 minutes late. I use a side entrance so my boss doesn't see me. Then I kind of space out for a few hours. I just stare at the screen, though it looks like i'm working. In any given day I probably do about 20 minutes of actual work, and this is probably the average.

So the typical office runs on about 5% efficiency, which seems more or less optimal. Much more and you're running the risk of burning people out. Much less and people are just taking the piss. 10 minute work day? Don't be ridiculous.

One cannot reduce the hours in a lateral move to artificially inflate the numbers. 5 hour work day might seem more efficient, but then people would have less time to discuss current affairs or space out, and the 20 minutes might see a corresponding decrease and turn to 11 or 12. Who can get anything done in 12 minutes? You need 20 at least.

 

[jumpncrash]

This thread pertains to my interests


I do 10 hour days, 2 hours overlap with the previous shift and 2 hours overlap with the next, no work gets done unless urgent in those overlap hours. Then I try to get a bit of stuff done in the 6 hours I have left, like kijiji and ebay. I also have 2 breaks and my lunch to take, so I have to sit down and get prepared for that. Somewhere between all that I fix computers

 

[rudeguy]

what hours are you supposed to work? fill those into the spreadsheet, unless you're > 20 min or habitually late. coffee breaks are on their time, you don't need to get there early(just make sure you're finishing your work)

8:30-5:00

I'm normally in by 7:45 though and I never take a lunch break. I'm a bit anal about my timecard. Even though no one checks it since I come in before everyone else.

 

[Spungo]

At my office, hourly employees use an internal company website to clock in/out via a web browser.

My company doesn't track exact times with a punch in/out system. You show up any time, you leave any time, you keep track of your own hours and how much time is put into each project or how much time is spent doing nothing. It seems to work pretty good. Work gets done, people usually don't screw around when there is work to do, and people stay long hours when asked. Employees have never been fired from this office and employees have never rage quit. People get a little stressed when work piles up but morale is always fairly high.

 

[Rhezuss]

WOW and people have all kinds of prejudice over civil servant/state employee not working at all...

Guess it's a spread habit all over the working spectrum...

 

[Thebobo]

WOW and people have all kinds of prejudice over civil servant/state employee not working at all...

Guess it's a spread habit all over the working spectrum...

Well when you work in the fed gov for 26 years its easy...

 

[AustinInDallas]

imagine how it is for us that work at home

 

[Josh123]

Salaried for us means that it really depends on the workload. We're in the middle of a maintenance window, so I'm actually working now. If the workload is light, the amount of neffing goes up dramatically.

This is the same for me but even more neffing since I plan to put my 2 weeks in the first part of next month.

 

[alkemyst]

I've never worked in an office before. It was always a store or a call center or a factory of some kind.

So I'm used to working every minute of the day. When I get in I get a coffee and hit the bathroom before I punch in. The others seem to come in, punch in, grab coffee, check Facebook, chat a bit, then about an hour into the day they start work.

Now what they do doesn't affect me, I actually like how laid back things are, I'm just curious if this is how most offices work.

Welcome to the big boy jobs where your employer is not always cracking a whip.

Get your job done and on schedule and for the most part you don't have to worry about much.

My job is basically 40 hours a week. They don't care how those hours are put in as long as the milestones are met and the customer is happy.