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The Most Productive Days and Times In 2017 (rescuetime.com)
In a blog post, personal analytics service RescueTime revealed exactly what days and times we were most productive in 2017, by studying the anonymized data of how people spent their time on their computers and phones over the past 12 months. From the report: Simply put, our data shows that people were the most productive on November 14th. In fact, that entire week ranked as the most productive of the year. Which makes sense. With American Thanksgiving the next week and the mad holiday rush shortly after, mid-November is a great time for people to cram in a few extra work hours and get caught up before gorging on Turkey dinner. On the other side of the spectrum, we didn't get a good start to the year. January 6th -- the first Friday of the year -- was the least productive day of 2017.
One of the biggest mistakes so many of us make when planning out our days is to assume we have 8+ hours to do productive work. This couldn't be further from the truth. What we found is that, on average, we only spend 5 hours a day working on a digital device. And with an average productivity pulse of 53% for the year, that means we only have 12.5 hours a week to do productive work. Our data showed that we do our most productive work between 10 and noon and then again from 2-5pm each day. However, breaking it down to the hour, we do our most productive work on Wednesdays at 3pm. RescueTime has a separate blog post detailing how they calculate their productivity scores.
One of the biggest mistakes so many of us make when planning out our days is to assume we have 8+ hours to do productive work. This couldn't be further from the truth. What we found is that, on average, we only spend 5 hours a day working on a digital device. And with an average productivity pulse of 53% for the year, that means we only have 12.5 hours a week to do productive work. Our data showed that we do our most productive work between 10 and noon and then again from 2-5pm each day. However, breaking it down to the hour, we do our most productive work on Wednesdays at 3pm. RescueTime has a separate blog post detailing how they calculate their productivity scores.
I keep hearing about how AMD processors are inherently superior to their Intel counterparts. Therefore, it must be true that superior productivity is achieved by getting rid of Intel processors and the slow KPTI, and switching to AMD. It's a shame that the researchers didn't discuss whether there were statistically significant differences between whether the subjects used AMD or Intel processors.
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And we already have a frontrunner for the least actionable piece of time management advice for 2018.
Did you track my cameras and paper notebooks? No, you didn't. This is garbage. Not everyone uses computers and phones and tablets to be productive, and even if they do, these people have no idea if I am using After Effects or watching funny cat videos.
Oh, wait, this is almost certainly "RescueTime" sponsored content. Go away! Your metrics are stupid and you are stupid for shilling your products on Slashdot.
working harder != working smarter
working harder != more output (production)
If human output is fixed (which over the long term, I believe it is), then cramming "in a few extra hours" should not be directed to anything valuable or otherwise important.
we only spend 5 hours a day working on a digital device
I don't think anyone who only spends that amount of time in front of a digital device.
Avantgarde Hebrew science fiction
One size fits all is almost never appropriate. I know I'm most productive at the start of the morning before people start interrupting me for questions, and usually through a good part of the afternoon before 4 PM.
How about you stop spying on people you dicks?
I won't eat the clickbait, but you can tell from the summary that they started with a narrow, non-representative sample of office workers, and the methodology probably just gets worse from there.
The /. editors are asleep at the wheel yet again. The date of the blog post is March 9, 2013. Between the SJWs and the millennials this site has really outdone itself in terms of sinking ever lower on the attention to detail scale.
It was all downhill after that.
Before I retired (early), I *often* outproduced my co-workers because I took more time to think and much less time to "do".
Spending time learning is also productivity. I would often know a way of doing things which took 1% (or less) as long as co-workers.
So you really need to watch the questions you are asking and the assumptions you are making about what is work, what is productivity, and so on.
Sometimes, the best thing you can do for your productivity is to take a break and go for a walk.
You just have to stay balanced about it.
She was like chocolate when she drank... semi-sweet at first and then increasingly bitter.
I'm not on RescueTime; I'm on, like, Boulder Golden Durban Goat Poison Oh Jesus Chem Kush got-any-crackers time. I can't imagine trying to flip my neurons to a new thread 300 times a week, much less 300 times a day. Isn't there some research that says that it takes people 20+ minutes to get fully engaged after an interrupt or task switch?
The Russians have won. They have made the world a cesspool of distrust, greed, fear and hate.
After 8 hours of work, productivity drops precipitously. Accrue too much overtime, and you'll be so tired your productivity is negative: you'll just be introducing errors you'll have to fix later.
...this is what this kind of "studies" actually say. And they measure people in a way 100% consistent with this view: the only metric is how many hours the slaves actually sweat at the workplace. Because slaves are little more than animals, they don't think, they do not talk among themseves while working, they do not eat much, all they do is handle the tools in a more or less productive way. I say, there is a solution for this problem: use a a longer whip!
making studies like this aid productivity how?