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How many hours are you productive per week and per day?

• henrygrew 12y ago
  I can only do 3-4 hours in the zone per day, if i take a nap in the afternoon i'm able to get another 3 hours of the zone in the evening.Thus on a good day it adds up to 6 hours of quality coding.I try to do planning and meetings in the other hours.
• dajbelshaw 12y ago
  Interesting. I've been thinking about this recently and, yes, while I can sit in front of a computer screen for eight hours, I reckon I'm only productive for six hours. So I try and work in three 2-hour bursts. It's worth saying that my situation's slightly different in that I work for a tech company, but I'm not a coder.
• antoinevg 12y ago
  30 minutes dropping kids at school & gym. 30 minutes breakfast, shower and HN. 3 hours of productive work. Break for lunch and a hour's worth of random fun. 3 hours in the afternoon. Done at 17h00. Sustainable, and over a year it adds up to a frightening amount of code :)
• MattBearman 12y ago
  This may interest you - according to a study[0] the average office worker is only productive for three hours a day. I'm a freelancer working from home, and I find I work about 5 - 6 chargeable hours / day. Of course some of those hours are more productive than others :) 0 - http://www.employeebenefits.co.uk/news/only-three-hours-of-productivity-a-day/103618.article http://www.employeebenefits.co.uk/news/only-three-hours-of-p...
• tmerr 12y ago
  Most good ideas I have surface after a break from coding, be it a walk, weekend, or night of sleep. Those ideas start depleting as soon my hands hit the keyboard, and once they're gone I enter full code monkey mode. When I'm conscious this transformation is taking place I usually hit up pen and paper or a white board, which can buy me extra hours. It probably comes out to about 50% of time planning, 50% coding, and as long as I don't spend too much time in the latter I can avoid getting burnt out. I figure if I have to try when coding I'm doing something wrong though it's sometimes unavoidable.
• atmosx 12y ago
  4-5h/day.
• khyryk 12y ago
  4-5 hours per day.
• lgieron 12y ago
  30-35 hr/week.
• templeos2 12y ago
  Managing is knowing what to do. Managing is harder the doing stuff. Most start-ups fail. They probably fail cause management -- working on bad idea or impossible idea or something like that. Management is difficult.
• yulaow 12y ago
  no more than 5hrs/day
• garrickvanburen 12y ago
  Depending on the day, 2-3hrs/project. I usually work on 3 very different projects each day.
• baristaGeek 12y ago
  In a regular week 12 hours (7am-7pm usually) from Monday to Friday and 4 hours on Saturday; for a total of 64 weekly productive hours. I spend this hours in college stuff, gym, volunteering and off course, coding.
• alphagenerator 12y ago
  Code quality falls off dramatically after 4-5 hours. Unit tests are the last line of defense in crunch mode, but even TDD doesn't prevent the bug onslaught if people are tired.
• srpeixinho 12y ago
  Around 85hrs/week when I don't have anything else to do... ~5hrs/week when I do
• analogmind 12y ago
  3/4 hours max per day. When I'm really interested, it tends to be a little more, but I can't hold that pace for to long.
• saturngirl 12y ago
  I find that my productivity goes down 90 minutes into a task. However, a 15-20 minute break does the trick and I find myself productive once again. The trick is to weed out the distractions (especially if you work from home) - TV, family, news/shopping sites, HN...
• enesunal 12y ago
  approx. 4 hours per day.
• Avalaxy 12y ago
  At my dayjob I'm productive for around 7,5 hours per day (I work 8 hours per day) which is incredible in my opinion. Then I put in some more freelancing hours when I get home, usually around 2 hours per day. I'm very bad at being productive when I work from home though. I could never work 8 hours per day when there are no colleagues around.