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Ask HN: How much hours of People / Meeting time does your day have?
As I get older I find it quite energy draining to meet with people while staying on top my game. How many hours meeting or pairing with other people do have on an average day? What is considered healthy?
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- sippndipp 10y ago8 or more hours
- sippndipp 10y ago7 hours
- sippndipp 10y ago6 hours
- sippndipp 10y ago5 hours
- sippndipp 10y ago4 hours
- sippndipp 10y ago3 hours
- sippndipp 10y ago2 hours
- sippndipp 10y ago1 hour
- PaulHoule 10y agoI do sales and development so it is highly variable. I might be making calls 6 hours a day some weeks, and not make any for another week.
- gus_massa 10y agoTo create a poll you must go to https://news.ycombinator.com/newpoll https://news.ycombinator.com/newpoll (IIRC, you must have 200 karma to use this).
- tedmiston 10y ago> As I get older I find it quite energy draining to meet with people In a typical day 0–2 hours of meetings working as a developer independent contractor. I don't count occasional DMing on Slack in that figure. I think this might be more personality-based than age-related. I'm in my mid-20s and have similar feelings about most meetings. The kind of meetings I like and that are really productive for me are short, for a purpose (there are explicit questions one side has for the other), and with a small number of attendees, for me it's typically 1–3. Working with people you really like to be around I think helps as well.
- fuqted 10y agoNone. Healthy social time would depend on how well you get along with the people. I'd say a majority of time would with someone / people you get along very well with would be the most healthy.
- shaftway 10y agoMy current team is glorious: 1 hour every other week. I've been on teams that average 3 hours per day. Honestly I'd bring a laptop and work through them. If there's that much information to distribute, I probably don't care about most of it.
- acedinlowball 10y agoI like to have at most 1 hour of meeting/talking with people time per day and at least 12 hours devoted to work, study, and research. I find this is a sensible balance that allows me to stay on top of my tasks.
- bbcbasic 10y ago1
- miguelrochefort 10y ago15 minutes to 1 hour.
- e_py 10y agoFrom 2-3h What really drains my energy are those meetings that don't led me to anything useful. Other than that it's necessary to meet up
- dhogan 10y agoI frequently go home realizing I haven't talked for 8 hours. Even as an introverted person, it kind of annoys me.
- a_lifters_life 10y ago30min to hr per week.
- csorrell 10y agoTwo meetings a weeks that last 15-30min
- sippndipp 10y agoThanks all for the feedback.
- shakna 10y ago2. I escape most thanks to a chronic pain condition, meaning sitting in a meeting just doesn't work. Which means I can get so much more done, that sit there debating "no, we don't want 6 pop up modals as soon as someone arrives at the website" for a solid hour. However, I do work with someone else who does the meetings, and we have constant back and forth for the whole day.