I'm curious, considering that so many say they're overworked.
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I think I'll just whine and complain like an adolescent because I don't like working so I'll make up some lame excuse to do very little work for very few hours and blame it on the status of the company instead of doing the job that I was hired to do. After all, our situation is always someone else's fault, and we have no control of our own lives or actions.
around 2. And everything that is done in those 2hrs does not contribute to producing oil and gas. It wasn't always this way before they ki-led the company.
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@1fxi: LOL. I will be missed more than the 4 hour/wk people working from home ;-). Either way it matters little to me as I have a lot of other options for the future and would enjoy a nice departing gift. Every time we go through a layoff, fewer quality technical folks remain, and the more Chevron feels like a leaking boat kept afloat by miking declining legacy assets: Myopic vision and no wisdom sunk the Titanic ... the iceburg was just the result.
@yxz: "... much of that time reflects a more self-motivated focus on my research interests..."; "...ongoing travel restrictions are making me rethink my current position and a return to academia might be in my future..." You may have forgotten, we're an oil company, not an academic playground. You won't be missed.
I work until the job is done, my performance review shows it too.
I advise and therefore my contribution cannot be measured by time!
I find it astonishing how diligent, hard-working and self-motivated the WFH, need better work/life balance, sit around all day and surf/post on the layoff site crowd claims they are as they boast about being able to get all their work done in 2 hours a week on other threads. Simply magical.
8 hours a day, because I refuse to work without being paid. I did the 60 hours a week with CVX for many years, but in the end the payout didn’t materialize and I was left with nothing more than sacrificed family time, that you can’t ever get back. All admins/support staff are long gone, as a result I have to do that too…honestly I can’t believe how much they pay me to do admin work! But if I don’t do it the wheel stops turning, so it has to be done. Now I am highly tactical and less and less strategic, but if that’s the way the company wants it, ok, but I’m not doing that more than the required minimum.
10 which includes cleaning the house, bathrooms, mopping, weeding the garden and cutting and trimming the grass and hedges, taking the kids to and from school and/or camp, grocery shopping, cooking and preparing meals, exercising on the treadmill, bike and weights, planning the weekend activities, reading the newspaper and going to dr. and dentist visits. Also, I occasionally move the mouse on my work PC and post complaints on this site in favor of full WFH or at least hybrid with fewer at work days for my team. I'm a very busy person and I need better work/life balance with all the things I am responsible for.
Between 9 and 10 per day, including eating lunch at desk
I put in a 60 hour week most of the time, but I am in CTC R&D and much of that time reflects a more self-motivated focus on my research interests rather than it being mandated (or even expected) as part of my job. If you like what you do, it is much less burdensome to go beyond the minimum required. That said, continuing travel restrictions are making me rethink my current position and a return to academia might be in my future.
Most people pretend to be busy for 9-10 hours EVERYDAY, which is not possible unless you are very inefficient. I'd say most work roughly 3-4 hours a day.
2 to 3.
8 to 9.
9, which includes doing the laundry, running the kids to school and back, and my nap.