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Original topic: 【 TiDBer 唠嗑茶话会 39 】听说程序员每天有效工作时长是 5-6个小时，那你呢？
Baidu told me~
The effective working hours for programmers every day are 5-6 hours.
What about you?
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What time do you start and finish work every day? What is the actual effective working time?
As the overall industry becomes more competitive, everyone is working overtime more and more.
However, long-term overtime only leads to physical and mental exhaustion.
What is the actual effective working time?
Ineffective meetings and ineffective overtime just to extend working hours—what is the point of such overtime?
Everyone has a responsibility to resist overwork, starting with me~
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Arrived at the company at 6:40 AM, left at 6:50 PM, and rested at 1:00 AM.
Starting at 8 AM, ending at 6 PM, with a two-hour break at noon, the regular working hours are a very standard eight-hour workday, with occasional overtime.
If interested, I can do it for a whole day, but generally not for long, I can’t keep it up for two or three days. If it’s long-term overtime, then I won’t be interested in anything, I just want to rest.
9 AM to 8 PM, but the time I can truly dedicate myself to work is less than half.
Focused work time is about 4 hours, the rest of the time should be more for thinking.
Can overtime help with thinking? No…
Too much overtime will just make you want to lie down…
10 AM to 8 PM, if you’re in good spirits, you can be effectively engaged, but in some cases, you may feel unmotivated.
Every day I arrive at the office at 8:30 in the morning and go home at 9:00 in the evening. The effective working hours seem to be from 9:00 to 11:00 in the morning and from 3:00 to 5:00 in the afternoon, which is just 4 hours.
I think having 2 hours of effective time is already good enough. Meetings and blame-shifting waste a lot of time. Some departments have unmarried employees who go for dinner at 17:30, come back to browse their phones, work out a bit, and their clock-in data looks great. But what’s the use of that? People like me who start work at 8 AM and leave at 6 or 7 PM are considered lagging behind. If the clock-in duration in the department is less than 12 hours, it’s basically at the bottom.
I arrive at work around 8:00 AM every day, have breakfast, and then start working. I finish work between 6:00 PM and 7:00 PM, and sometimes I work overtime if I have the time. The actual effective working hours might be just three to four hours. Most of my time is taken up by writing various reports, communicating issues, and other tasks, so the time I spend actually writing code is really limited.
Start work at 9:00, arrive at the office at 8:30 to have breakfast. Start a round of inspections at 9:30, and it’s almost noon.
Finish work at 17:30, but usually leave around 18:30.
Every day feels busy, but when I review after work, it feels like I haven’t done anything. The effective working time is just those 2-3 hours in the afternoon.
5-6 hours is really optimistic. There are always small tasks every day, and time is fragmented.
Spent about half an hour browsing asktug, and my already limited productive time got even shorter 
Usually 4 hours, 2 hours in the morning, 2 hours in the afternoon, and in between, I browse the asktug community to take a break.
When busy, work diligently, as it is all effective working time. When not busy, slack off, as it is not effective working time.
Effective working time is about 5 hours. When not busy, I look at technical materials and browse C2C and B2C.
Start work at 8:30 AM, effectively begin working around 9:00 AM, and finish at 11:30 AM to go home and have lunch with the kids. The effective working time in the morning is about 2.5 hours.
Start work at 2:00 PM, officially finish at 5:30 PM, but usually finish around 6:30 PM. Excluding the half-hour break, the effective working time in the afternoon is about 4 hours.
Summary: Excluding meetings, COVID tests, and slacking off, the average effective working time per day is about 5 hours.
5-6 hours is generally quite high. After taking on more responsibilities, various meetings and miscellaneous tasks come up, so usually, there may only be 3-4 hours, unless there are some urgent requirements.
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