An article at Hicksdesign about the amount of work, or more like lack of work, most of us complete in a typical eight hour day, started me thinking about what constitutes actual, or real, productivity.
We might spent eight hours a day working, but what do we actually achieve in real terms? Not so much I suspect compared to the amount of time that we input.
When I started working freelance, I worked out my rates and estimated earnings based on a “typical” eight hour day. What I didn’t really comprehend at the time was the fallacy of an eight hour day of solid work. There are so many factors that eat into that supposed “billable time”.
These factors include, but are not limited to, admin work, email, equipment/technology failures, phone calls, meetings, and travel time.
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