Poll: How many hours a day are you effective?

3 points by jahnu ↗ HN
I have always noticed a significant drop in ability after about 6 hours of work and unless urgent I switch to tasks that require far less mental concentration. A good lunch, perhaps with exercise helps recover an extra hour or so at most. Almost invariably, the next morning after a sleep, problems that took considerable effort the previous day now seem clear and straight forward.

So HN, I'm curious how many hours a day you feel you are nearly fully effective in your work.

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Could be 10 hours and more in real life. But in a work environment, 8 hours, 5 days a week I am happy for 4 productive hours a day basically wasting the other 4 plus meal time.
I wonder why more employers don't want to hire lots of people for 25/30 hours a week. Seems like you get the most valuable hours out of them.
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