> Some of the laziest, least productive people I've worked with are the same people posting on LinkedIn on Sunday morning about their 80 hour grinds every week.
In my experience, people who claim to regularly work 60-80 hours/week are completely full of it. Yes, there’s this “thought about work for a second, that’s another hour” mentality. But there’s also just a ton of people outright lying about the amount of time they actually sit at a desk.
I worked at Yahoo for a while and nearly everyone told me they worked long hours, like 10 hour days, every day. The vast majority of them were working at most 8. People would talk about working late but they came in even late, too. Showing up at 11am and leaving at 7pm is not a long day. The people claiming to work until 7 were also not actually stating that late typically, because if I stayed until 6 the place was a ghost town. There legitimately were a few people who were working long days, but they very much seemed to be the exception. There was an unhealthy culture of pretending to work absurd hours, though.
I used to work at a company where we could clock in and out if we wanted. If we did, we could keep any extra hours at our convenience as a day off. If we didn't it would be a full workday by default.
I liked the freedom to work long days every now and then, and then take some time off later when I wanted a long weekend or so. A colleague decided that's a great idea and started doing the same, but stopped after a week or two when he realized he's just accruing negative time.
I'm not claiming that I was fully productive with my office hours, just agreeing with you that some people really do think they work more than they actually do.
In my experience, people who claim to regularly work 60-80 hours/week are completely full of it. Yes, there’s this “thought about work for a second, that’s another hour” mentality. But there’s also just a ton of people outright lying about the amount of time they actually sit at a desk.
I worked at Yahoo for a while and nearly everyone told me they worked long hours, like 10 hour days, every day. The vast majority of them were working at most 8. People would talk about working late but they came in even late, too. Showing up at 11am and leaving at 7pm is not a long day. The people claiming to work until 7 were also not actually stating that late typically, because if I stayed until 6 the place was a ghost town. There legitimately were a few people who were working long days, but they very much seemed to be the exception. There was an unhealthy culture of pretending to work absurd hours, though.