From the millions of articles spread across the internet to the thousands of titles released over the years; there are billions of hard
worked hours out there.
You don't have a regular place to work, ergonomics can be tricky, travel days throw
working hours out the window, and random opportunities to socialize and explore cap off this picture that, if you're not careful, can mean a very unproductive location independent career.
I'd love to spread
my working hours out over more days so that the girls wouldn't have to go to after school care, but it always comes back to the same problem — how do I cover their 12 weeks of school holidays with my mere 4??? All those extra days at tennis / art / soccer / dancing camp — too hard (and expensive).
Not exact matches
Each day I had set
out to
work harder than the last and to complete more and more
hours of
work.
Not the get home from
work and slump in front of the tube for
hours of mindless consumption kind of obsession (that's just numbing
out).
How can you earn more money without having to spend countless extra
hours every day trying to figure
out what
works?
New research from Stanford shows that productivity per
hour declines sharply when the workweek exceeds 50
hours, and productivity drops off so much after 55
hours that you don't get anything
out of
working more.
What sets elite performers who turn
out prodigious quantities of valuable
work apart from normal worker bees, who despite our best intentions and long
hours, consistently produce less than we hoped?
Because my schedule is grueling and my
hours are extreme, I have to get up 3
hours before my call time and
work out before I show up for
work.
In a coworking space, for example, it's easy to join in on topic - specific discussions, head to the gym to
work out at any time of the day, grab coffee at all
hours, change up your
work surrounding, take important calls in sound - blocking rooms and even catch some Z's in a nap closet.
After Handmaker spoke with a consultant, he had his Assurance employees block
out a certain number of
hours each week for priority -
work time.
They're doing it through dozens of workshops held in community centers, libraries, YMCA's, and municipal buildings, where anywhere from 40 to 60 women (and sometimes a few men)
work their way through a two -
hour curriculum that teaches them how to figure
out how much they should be paid, how to make their case to an employer, and how to gracefully exit a negotiation that might not be going well.
The memo from Saskatchewan Government Insurance said details are still being
worked out, but the curriculum is to include at least 70
hours of training in the classroom, yard and behind the wheel.
How has Schweikardt's first experiments with nine
hours straight of meetings
worked out?
«When you're at your local dry cleaner, you see the guy that's
working 70
hours a week, why don't you just pull
out your debit card and give him a break?»
«Everybody worries about making mistakes,» he says, «but when it comes to choosing between
working 24
hours [and risking] having your mental faculties function at less efficiency, and spreading that
out over more time, most lawyers would tell you the former is more likely to result in fewer mistakes.
«I'm lucky that my husband has a flexible schedule — one we've shifted to accommodate his love for the early morning
hours and my preference to stay in bed... Even if I'm not putting my
work at the center of this time, starting
out with quiet time always pays dividends later in the day.»
«Lots of people set high goals, and, if things don't
work out, they may be disappointed for a few
hours or a day, but they move on,» Antony says.
Not too surprisingly, it turns
out that putting in all those
hours requires us to
work some pretty unusual
hours as well.
Our approach to flexible
work hours also came
out of discussions with employees.
«I had been
working between 100 and 110
hours a week during launches, sleeping bag under the desk and everything, and I realized I'd poured my heart and soul into this and yet I'd gotten burnt
out by the experience,» Soto says.
A couple of months ago, an ad for a Woodside, California, group house called Startup Castle drew ridicule for demanding that applicants for its coveted spaces
work out at least 15
hours a week, wear makeup no more than twice a week, have no more than one tattoo, and only rarely listen to songs with explicit lyrics.
I take over an
hour of trains and subways to and from
work each day, and if I couldn't block
out all the noise, I would go crazy.
With that
out of the way, my
hours in the office are ultra-productive,
working with my team instead of buried in my inbox.
But instead of listing
out ways to be more productive or get
out of
work one
hour earlier, I'm going to take a look at what really successful people do instead.
Women have less time for on - the - job labor because they spend more time doing housework than their male counterparts — so they miss
out when they're
working in fields that reward long
hours, based on a new National Bureau for Economic Research study.
He required managers to spend at least 10 percent of their
working hours socializing with their employees; he offered new hires up to $ 4,000 to quit in order to weed
out those who wouldn't give the kind of service Zappos required.
Due to his schedule, it's almost impossible for Jimmie to devote several
hours in a row to
working out.
To establish structure and discipline, plan your meals
out ahead of time, set a weekly
work schedule, and track your
hours to ensure that you're
working effectively and not just being busy.
But, also each week, I
work 35 - 40
hours, I go to the gym five times, I clear
out my inbox and task list and each night I sleep 8 - 9
hours.
The ritual mandates the absence of
work, entertainment and travel, which makes for a 24 -
hour period during which no flights are allowed in or
out, electricity use is limited and cars are prohibited on the streets.
Losing about 40
hours of
work takes a predictable bite
out of productivity.
The preparation for her role as «Wonder Woman» got her into boxing and mixed martial arts; she was
working out six
hours per day doing fighting choreography, horseback riding, cardio interval training, and strength training.
I walk outside my Manhattan home, hail a taxi, and tell the driver to take me to the Pumping Iron Gym at 91st Street and First Avenue, where I
work out for two
hours.
Afterwards, she gets dressed for the gym and travels from her Upper East Side home to the YMCA in Park Slope, Brooklyn to
work out for roughly an
hour.
You'd think the need for so much practice would run counter to the idea that four
hours of intellectual
work a day maxes
out our brains.
«I could
work long
hours,» said Burch, speaking at the Vanity Fair Founders Fair in New York City, but «it can really wear
out a team, so I have to be aware of that.»
Baxter can be taken
out of the box, set up, trained, and put to
work in about one
hour.
Lots of startups burn people
out with 60, 70, 80
hours of
work per week.
Staffers
work extra
hours Monday - Thursday and take Friday off rather than spending time coming up with creative ways to sneak
out early.
In it, he boils down the impressively persuasive case for not trying to wring more than four
hours of creative
work out of your brain each day.
It's the
hours you were alone and suffering and
working it
out.
What this says is that
out of an 8 -
hour work day, most people only
work about six
hours anyway.
If this
works out and we can roll
out the other videos we have planned and save 1,200
hours of
work for our 11 employees, that's $ 60,000 per year.
Do they now
work less
hours and have gone
out on a rare «date night» with their loved one?
Maybe, if your business makes sense and you figure
out during the
hours you can devote to it how to make it
work, you'll ultimately make enough to support yourself from it.
In the summer, reduce air - conditioning costs by scheduling your
work around the hottest
hours of the day, using attic fans and skylights that open to let
out the heat.
It elevates my business to a higher level than if I would have stayed home to
work extended
hours, day in and day
out, without a break.
«When we were designing the space, we wanted to figure
out ways for people to go back there for new experiences in the same space,» says Carlton DeWoody of the New York firm Reunion, designer of the Wildwood Lodge, listing coffee breaks,
work time, social
hour, meals and other uses supported in a lounge filled with trivia and board games.
It does note that there are «studies» that show «raising the federal minimum wage — which has not changed since 2009 — to just $ 10.10 per
hour would pull more than half of the nation's
working poor
out of poverty.»