Want to take a poll......I’m wondering if it’s just certain areas of WF that run their employees into the ground with insane hours each week at the expense of their families, mental health, physical health, etc?
What area do you work in and how many hours on average do you work each week?
For all these people working 5-15 hours a week.....what area are you in? I need to join!
@crnj+14DSdVWS... Same here. Less than 15 hours of work per week. Loving it and since I am a telecommuter I get focus on other things
I work no more than 15 hours a week. I could do more, but why.
I put my notice in Friday. I work under Saul. Tired of the ambiguity. Got a great raise and a boatload of stock.
30+ million Americans out of work and growing. I'm thankful I have a job that pays well. It allows me to take care of my family and not have to be in a two mile long food bank drive up line.
Copy / paste , repeat, repeat....etc...,
Because a MAJORITY of the risk partners are not helpful, it’s easily 60 hours a week. Most of the time is spent waiting for approvals and obsessing about fringe cases. You can hardly go to the bathroom without a RACI
I'm just so darn tired. And it doesn't matter. We're cogs. And no matter how badly we may want to work here to create positive change it simply doesn't matter. The wheel just keeps spinning.
IT 50 hours every week.
the strategy has always been about attrition. They for some reason do not want to do mass layoffs. it would be much faster and less stressful on employees vice dragging them through this nonsense.
Yeah, IT here. I'm not usually overworked, sometimes, but that's normal flow, and I'm not in support, there are times when it gets heavy, the problem is 90% of what I do is stupid work.
The 10% that is not stupid is important, don't get me wrong, but the 90% that's stupid is self inflicted.
No one wants to admit that the new system that they spent two years developing is garbage and already out of date, so we keep using the old systems, and after a few years we have 5 systems to do what we used to get done with one.
And since none of those systems rely on a common database, I spend hours a day doing copy/paste from Excel flippin' spreadsheets like it's 1995.
It's 2020. I do copy/paste. From MS Excel. All. Day. Long. In IT.
And because none of our systems have a common database, our reporting is garbage.
The other day I actually got a good chunk of work done, and it felt really good.
But that was one day out of dozens where I leave my system dreading coming back to it the next day.
Sometimes the 90% that's stupid takes up so much time, but management wants it done NOW, that I get behind on the actual work.
I can't wait to get let go or find something new. I hate it here so much.
Oh, and layoff related? If Saul is saying the Strategy is still the strategy and just on hold, then he's full of it and the strategy was and is and has always been attrition, because insisting people come into an office during a pandemic that is going to last at least two years is nonsense.
IT. About 50 to 60 hours a week is spent "at work". But out of that total, only about 5 to 10 hours is truly meaningful and productive. The rest is id–tic meetings, preparation for id–tic meetings, fighting red-tape, and most of all: agile-related time soaks.
You would not believe the amount of time we (my entire team, on frequent multi-hour conference calls) spend in meetings just trying to come up with "verbiage" that we can put into their new "agile time tracking system". We spend more time describing our work to non-technical "scrum" managers than we do actually DOING the work. Far more.
For what my group does, forcing "Agile" down our throats makes as much sense as forcing the FDNY to use an "agile" approach to fight apartment fires.
my last position here was instance working at least 15 hour days Mon to Fri and then another 7 hours on sat and sun. Caused for almost mental breakdowns. Rest of group there pretty much did nothing, just pretended they didn't know how and the manager supported that behavior.
New position I am to 50 - 60 hours which is 100 percent more manageable!
Do you see these comments CHARLIE????? Exactly what I commented about earlier. SO MANY PEOPLE who do NOTHING need to go!!!! So unfair to us who work our butts off. How does this happen?
Our Marketing division is working 14-16 hour days plus weekends. It's so unbalanced... the health of my entire team is failing... no one in management cares...they aren't working those hours and keep heaping more and more work on us.
And other Marketing teams we support are barely working...not even doing their jobs. It's disgusting.
So chaotic.
My God, how is it possible people in risk and compliance are working 50-60+ hour weeks and all the comments on here but one so far say they barely work 5-10 hours a week?
Before I left, around 10 hours a week. Layoffs are coming so I needed to be proactive and jump, but it was a great ride playing video games half the day while “working”
Marketing. Nobody ever did more than a few hours of actual work pet week. And most of that involved preparation for those meetings where one person talks and hundreds listen. And now that we’re working from home it’s a paid vacation.
Lucky for us we’re low on Chainsaw’s radar.
We are becoming victims of paralysis by analysis... And all the tasks to release changes are just laughable... Yeah, we're ready for Agile.
5 to 10 hours of actual work in a week. LOL. Reminds me of one of the great scenes from Office Space where the guy says he actually only does about 15 minutes of work each day and then The Bobs have him pegged as Upper Management
people in IT work like dogs because they allow themselves to be worked like dogs. If you cannot get your work done in 40 hours, then things need to drop on the floor and resources need to be gotten. if you dont have the backbone then its ur fault honestly
over here in ICS under CISO we have people claiming to work 50 - 70 hours a week. Doing what, exactly? Attending meetings as a passive participant is not work. Many many meetings with 20+ participants (some meetings with 50+) where only a couple of people are actively talking, the rest sit around and listen.
Im lucky if I do 5 to 10 hours of real work a week.
IT, 50 - 60 hours per week.