The average that real knowledge workers work per day is probably closer to 6, including meetings. I did a simple poll of HN a while back. Here is the result: ht

The average that real knowledge workers work per day is probably closer to 6, including meetings. I did a simple poll of HN a while back. Here is the result: https://imgur.com/qdSltlM https://imgur.com/qdSltlM It's a normal distribution around 4-8 hours. There's no correlation with hours worked to seniority. Poll language here: https://strawpoll.com/47x15cf1 https://strawpoll.com/47x15cf1 I specifically included meetings, etc, in the time counted. If you took anecdotes from office workers IRL you'd think everyone was in the top quintile. You can argue that its an unrepresentative sample (people browsing HN) but I'd postulate that people not on HN are using downtime elsewhere.