Before covid, my work takes on average about 7-8 hr a day. Now, without the social aspect, I can easily do 5-6 hr a day, but there are days I work 10-12 hr beca

Before covid, my work takes on average about 7-8 hr a day. Now, without the social aspect, I can easily do 5-6 hr a day, but there are days I work 10-12 hr because I was in a flow to solve the problem. From my experience, how much you work is largely depending on: 1. company culture. My friends who work on trading desk as tech person were doing long hours before pandemic, now, they are doing crazy long hours. Managements don't trust their people, lack boundary, etc.. I no longer work for those companies and I'm much healthier because of that. 2. Your skill vs expectation of your job. If you can easily qualify for the job in both hard and soft skills, your hours will be easier. If you are behind on the job in those skills, then you'll have to work harder. 3. And lastly, the skills of your team(s). I work with a lot of teams with junior-mid level developers, so I spend a lot of time trying to get them to understand what we are doing. Whereas seniors, we just get it done, but there are some seniors that are more obstacles than juniors.