Ask HN: How much hours of People / Meeting time does your day have?

8 or more hours

7 hours

6 hours

5 hours

4 hours

3 hours

2 hours

1 hour

I do sales and development so it is highly variable. I might be making calls 6 hours a day some weeks, and not make any for another week.

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> As I get older I find it quite energy draining to meet with people

In a typical day 0–2 hours of meetings working as a developer independent contractor. I don't count occasional DMing on Slack in that figure.

I think this might be more personality-based than age-related. I'm in my mid-20s and have similar feelings about most meetings. The kind of meetings I like and that are really productive for me are short, for a purpose (there are explicit questions one side has for the other), and with a small number of attendees, for me it's typically 1–3. Working with people you really like to be around I think helps as well.

None.

Healthy social time would depend on how well you get along with the people.

I'd say a majority of time would with someone / people you get along very well with would be the most healthy.

My current team is glorious: 1 hour every other week.

I've been on teams that average 3 hours per day. Honestly I'd bring a laptop and work through them. If there's that much information to distribute, I probably don't care about most of it.

I like to have at most 1 hour of meeting/talking with people time per day and at least 12 hours devoted to work, study, and research. I find this is a sensible balance that allows me to stay on top of my tasks.

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15 minutes to 1 hour.

From 2-3h What really drains my energy are those meetings that don't led me to anything useful. Other than that it's necessary to meet up

I frequently go home realizing I haven't talked for 8 hours. Even as an introverted person, it kind of annoys me.

30min to hr per week.

Two meetings a weeks that last 15-30min

Thanks all for the feedback.

2. I escape most thanks to a chronic pain condition, meaning sitting in a meeting just doesn't work.

Which means I can get so much more done, that sit there debating "no, we don't want 6 pop up modals as soon as someone arrives at the website" for a solid hour.

However, I do work with someone else who does the meetings, and we have constant back and forth for the whole day.