Does anyone work uneven work days? For instance, a...
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careful-napkin-30353
06/16/2022, 7:42 AMDoes anyone work uneven work days? For instance, assuming a 40h work week(5d), 12h for 2d and 6h for the rest of the week. The goal is to have meaningful amount of time in the shorter work days to do other activities. However, I'm not sure if it's a good idea practically. If someone has tried it, please let me know how it worked out for you.
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chilly-rocket-77832
06/16/2022, 7:53 AMIMO most "9-5" jobs work like this.
It just that folks end-up spending their time chatting or on social media on the 4-6h workdays.
Working from Home / Remote-Login appears to have helped many folks realise that they can utilize such "down-time" on most workdays in alternative productive / fun activities.
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dry-monkey-93718
06/16/2022, 8:43 AMI've tried working 4h days back when I was freelancing. I ended up spending the entire day on the problem/adjacent things anyway.
In the last consulting gig, I worked 3 days a week. Wed-Fri.
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witty-air-63049
06/16/2022, 9:25 AMIt was always like this in the office. The "downtime" between meetings would go in hanging out with colleagues or long lunches. Now that I'm remote, I utilize the downtime to my fullest:
ā¢ Catch up on TV shows
ā¢ Play with my cat
ā¢ Run errands, especially those that would take longer if done on the weekends
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flat-helmet-27539
06/16/2022, 9:44 AMDoesnt exactly answer your question. But front loading your week is an interesting approach I've seen work.
https://zapier.com/blog/front-loading-your-week/
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careful-napkin-30353
06/16/2022, 2:15 PM@dry-monkey-93718 when you were trying out 4h work days, did you plan the rest of the day with other activities? Did you still end up spending time working on something or the other?
careful-napkin-30353
06/16/2022, 2:18 PMMy plan is to organize work such that I build features (which typically take longer/are more work) on the 12h days and keep the shorter days for polishing and testing etc
careful-napkin-30353
06/16/2022, 2:22 PM@chilly-rocket-77832 true, a big limitation about being in office for that one last meeting at the end of day means that we can't use the time in-between as per my need.
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dry-monkey-93718
06/16/2022, 3:13 PMDid you still end up spending time working on something or the other?This. Part of it was intentional. I wanted to get good at things faster so I'd intentionally learn work adjacent things in the free time. But part of it was completely unintentional. Whenever I'd have a problem that was somewhat involved and spanned a long time, it was a pain to stop working on it. I'd need to "save" all this mental context about the problem to carry over to the next day, get back in the zone. "Just a little bit more" mindset would kick in and I'd end up spending many hours on it.
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