I'm not an employee, but a co-owner of a cooperative. As such, I track my hours.
A 5 hour workday is normal for me, with 7.5 hours being exceptional.
So yes, I think a 25-hour week is exactly what we should be pushing for.
Knowledge work, don properly, is *hard* and mentally draining - as it working on screens.
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@deutrino @dajbelshaw A Swedish study was done around that time (~2015), and found 32 hours/week to be optimum for productivity. 5 hrs/day would seem to have too much relative overhead (1 hr of that is probably wasted on coffee-socializing, reading corp email, status meetings)
@resist1984 @deutrino @dajbelshaw after much tinkering, I'm currently at 6 hours per day, 4 days per week, and it's probably ok. When I work 4 hours per day it feels like I don't get to do much, exactly because of the overheads you mentioned (staff email, staff meetings, etc.). But having the same total hours over 4 days feels like a good combo, much recommended.
@g @deutrino @resist1984 Yeah, I'd definitely settle for 6 hours over 4 days. In fact, from 2015-17 that's pretty much what I did (took Wednesdays 'off')
@resist1984 @deutrino Right, so we need to also get rid of all that crap as well π