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What would a 3 hour work day be like?

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It often feels like there are only 3 productive hours in typical American white collar work day.

What if we just cut out the rest?

Edit: Some great responses. So responses must have also been said about the 5 day and 40 hour work weeks.

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flamingo_pinyata@sopuli.xyz
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Then you miss out the unmentioned part of the work - idle thinking. Not only the time spent typing something on the keyboard is work. All the time spent thinking how to solve a problem is also work.

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onoira [they/them]@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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All the time spent thinking how to solve a problem is also work.

try telling that to every manager i’ve ever had.

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boogetyboo@aussie.zone
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Walking to get a coffee is when I’ve solved some of the most complex problems in my head. Walking to get a coffee was also one of the few times I’d leave my desk. What even was lunch…

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Che Banana@beehaw.org
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Or the fact that most jobs are not behind desks or keyboard…

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sunzu@kbin.run
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Office drones forget that society requires different types of work done to function… They ways got that bias lol it is cross cultural too

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PerogiBoi@lemmy.ca
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That’s not how my employer measures productivity. They use keystrokes per minute. Gotta get good at idle typing.

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LarkinDePark@lemmygrad.ml
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“I got no work done at all today, it was all back to back meetings!”.

My wife, regularly.

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MNByChoice@midwest.socialOP
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This is true. I tend to do my best thinking away from work, and not part of my current work time.

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