For Those Of You With A Full Time Job Or Internship, How Productive Are You?

[Co-Chair Bagel23]

Yeah, like for those of you with a full time job or internship, what percent of the time that you are on clock are you really being productive and working? I would say for me only 40-50% of the time. I don't find work thrilling, and there is not enough incentive (since it is unpaid and I just get free stuff and food). So over half of the time I am either on here, discord, web surfing, map drawing, sleeping in my cubicle (it is a fairly routine occurrence that my supervisors have to wake me up when they come to my cubicle), etc. What about you atlas?

[HillGoose]

110% never less, booyah.

Realistically tho, probably like 75%. I enjoy my job more than most people seem to, even though I really don't want to work in bookkeeping forever, it's good for right now.

[President of the great nation of 🏳️‍⚧️]

I don't, but if I did, I assume I'd completely sh**t the bed on it.

[parochial boy]

So today for example I:

 - got to work at 8.00
 - spent an hour in a meeting on a topic I know nothing about
 - Had a three hour long argument (including about 6 coffee breaks) with an SQL query
 - went for a 12k run
 - had a börek and a pain au chocolat for lunch
 - spent an hour watching my boss show me how something works
 - another hour pretending to do what my boss had shown me
 - went home at 4.30

So anything between 3 and 6 hours "actual work" depending on how you define it - which is pretty boring great as my current job pays 40% than my last job but involves about 30% less work.

[RINO Tom]

70-80% by necessity.  I always take several short breaks (5 minutes or so) to do something not related to work during the day just to kick back a bit, haha ... probably not model employee behavior, but I get the work done well, I think.  It also fluctuates a lot.  I leave for a week long vacation Friday at 1:00 pm, so this week has been especially unproductive.

[Lechasseur]

My productivity level has definitely gone up. I was probably like Bagel a month ago but I'm like RINO Tom now

[thumb21]

90%, not much room to slow down when you work in a warehouse. If I had a job where I sat at a computer, my productivity levels would certainly be much lower.

[Co-Chair Bagel23]

My productivity level has definitely gone up. I was probably like Bagel a month ago but I'm like RINO Tom now

What changed for you?

[Dr. Arch]

As a grad student, it's do or fail, so yeah, easily over 90%.

[dead0man]

on average, over the course of my job, 10-20%.  On a typical night, 0-10%.

[Del Tachi]

Let's be realistic, as a graduate student I'm working at a 90% pace 30-40% of the time (~31.5% total productive output).  This isn't a very healthy habit, so I should probably try evening this out to working at about a 75% pace, 50-60% of the time (~41.3% total productive output).

If it takes more than 50% of your total productivity to accomplish your job, you need to switch careers. 

[Virginiá]

80-90%.

I'd say I'm closer to 80% than 90%, which is the opposite of how I started, mostly because I've befriended some co-workers and socializing/screwing around in general obviously makes me less productive.

But overall I hate the idea of agreeing to do something and then not living up to my end but still taking a check for it, so I try to make sure I always do what needs doing at work.

[Xing]

As a teacher, you really can't get away with less than 95%. Maybe 90% on early release days with PD.

[I Can Now Die Happy]

100%. I never slack off when I'm at work. Practically every single second is spent on an Important&Urgent Task or an Important&Non-Urgent Task. I can be a dingleberry out of work, which is why I treat Atlas the way I do.

[John Dule]

90%, not much room to slow down when you work in a warehouse. If I had a job where I sat at a computer, my productivity levels would certainly be much lower.

Off-topic, but love your sig.

[thumb21]

90%, not much room to slow down when you work in a warehouse. If I had a job where I sat at a computer, my productivity levels would certainly be much lower.

Off-topic, but love your sig.

Thanks!

[Lechasseur]

My productivity level has definitely gone up. I was probably like Bagel a month ago but I'm like RINO Tom now

What changed for you?

I got more used to my internship, when you know what you're doing you become more productive and slack off less as you're more focused.

[Co-Chair Bagel23]

My productivity level has definitely gone up. I was probably like Bagel a month ago but I'm like RINO Tom now

What changed for you?

I got more used to my internship, when you know what you're doing you become more productive and slack off less as you're more focused.

Oh I see, I might be forced to be super productive the next two days since this lady from Florida is coming to the office and people have been saying since room is tight, they might give her my cubicle and make me hole up with my boss in his office, not going to be a blast.

[DINGO Joe]

Hard to answer.  I have some routine responsibilities that I've been doing long enough that they only take up maybe 6-10 hrs of my work week.  And some weeks that is pretty much all I have.  Not that I don't do other things, meetings, read trades and other information that may or not be useful to some end goal, maybe mentor somebody.   However, there are about 8-10 times during the year that a major opportunity comes up or something goes horribly wrong and I log a 60-80 hr week where I'm engaged to the point where I feel like I may vomit out my brain.  The only good thing about that is that even though I'm salaried, I get comp time for any week I log like that.  Thus, that cuts down on the time I'd be in the office doing nothing that I'd have to be in the office for. 

[bagelman]

normal schedule:

go to work at 11:30pm

start actually working at 12am

Sometimes I might take a full hour break fro the 4am hour. However I usually take a break before then then take another at around 5.

[HagridOfTheDeep]

100%. In a way it’s more because I have to work when I’m not at work.

[Co-Chair Bagel23]

Dude, this sucks. They keep bringing in people from India for training, and they are going to do it all summer long, and they are using my cubicle, and now I really have to hole up in my boss' office 8:30 to 5, m-f. Goodbye unproductivity, goodbye naps, goodbye peace of mind.

[America Needs R'hllor]

I work in my uni's call center, so my productiveness is a result of how many people call us and how many colleagues are around at any given shift. It can go from around 20% on really slow days to over 90%, even over 95% in August-October when people go crazy for some reason.

[RINO Tom]

Post-vacation and pre-notice update: 40-50%.

[Co-Chair Bagel23]

Most of the management including my boss that I share an office with are out for the whole week so I be chilling and super unproductive done basically nothing all day.