I've worked at places that don't notice if you're not working, and those were unfulfilling jobs, and those companies have generally performed poorly. To be fair

I've worked at places that don't notice if you're not working, and those were unfulfilling jobs, and those companies have generally performed poorly. To be fair, I've also worked on teams that have demanded disproportionate amounts of time that went mostly toward navigating mountains of technical debt, bad tooling, red tape, and political bullshit. Those were even worse. My current gig is demanding, but my work tends to produce results. So I'm happy to do the work there. I decided that early stage startups are where I like to be, working on products that I would like to personally see successful, and working with people that don't give me uncomfortable vibes. It took me 15 years to figure this out. If you're finding yourself trying to get away from work as much as possible, maybe that company isn't for you. If you do want to work and you're finding it hard to be motivated, try tracking your own hours with something like Harvest App. You'll quickly figure out where your time is wasted. Hopefully, you'll even be able to make subconscious efforts to improve your habits, using those time measurements as one of your top observability metrics. You want to keep yourself really honest? Send weekly reports to your boss. If you don't trust your boss with those, ask yourself if that company is really for you. If you find yourself cheating the system, then you're not ready to leave the doomed outland of corporate mediocrity. There's plenty of other possible reasons you might not be motivated though. Ask yourself how good your health is, how good of shape you're in, are you getting enough sleep, is your living/working space clean or polluted, do you have uncontrolled ADHD, just to name a few.