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rileyoneill t1_j9c26qf wrote

30% of tech workers admit to working fewer than 4 hours per day. I have friends and family in this industry, many working in Silicon Valley. Some of them are workaholics and some barely do anything. I have heard of project managers, who seem to exclusively be very attractive young women, who barely work 2-3 hours per day but make more than a doctor.

https://www.fastcompany.com/90597677/report-one-third-of-tech-workers-admit-to-working-only-3-4-hours-a-day

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These tech companies are so flush with cash and they don't want to pay dividends to investors so they were hiring huge amounts of people. I knew people who got caught up with this and they would claim that the job is not as difficult as Starbucks but paid 5 times as much.

The work horses in tech will mostly always be employed.

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ianitic t1_j9e0unm wrote

Of coding, that sounds typical. A lot of us don't feel like meetings and such, are productive or like work. Not to say I'm sometimes not "actively working" as well. I'd say we bring our work home in our heads longer than most though.

In any case, average office worker works less than 3hrs/day https://www.inc.com/melanie-curtin/in-an-8-hour-day-the-average-worker-is-productive-for-this-many-hours.html

Anecdotally, I'd say that this is true as well.

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