[ejb999]

I am developer working for a very large 'non-tech' company; 100% WFH (even before covid because I don't live near any of the offices).

I only get 3 weeks of vacation a year - and usually have a hard time even using that; honestly if I had 5 weeks of vacation don't know what I would do with it - especially since covid has made it very undesirable to travel, so we will see once restrictions are lifted.

No one keeps track of my hours, but I easily do 60-70 hours a week, and where I work that is what gets you more money and/or promotions (Not the # of hours per per se, but the pace at which you get things done) - plenty of folks just 'coast along', but everyone knows who those people are, and they are the first fired when the budget gets cut.

[vkk8]

Do you mind if I ask how do you even manage to do 60-70 hours a week of productive technical work? I can do maybe 2-3 hours of programming a day before my concentration starts dropping. That plus whatever meetings I have gets me to maybe 4-5 hours of work per day, the rest is just dicking around while staying online on Teams (before it was chatting with people in the office, now it's doing whatever I want at home).

I know there are also people who work longer hours here where I live, but usually they are in some kind of management positions and majority of their time is spent in meetings. All the developers and technical people that I know tend to be a bit lazy. Maybe it's just my social bubble, though.

[ejb999]

Thing is, its not all technical work - thats the problem 20-25 +/- hours a week of meetings - so I put in the extra time so I can do the 40 hours of technical work on top of that.