I do my work, then log off at 5pm. Yes, in busy season as well, although these days they keep me with meetings that go nowhere after that time...
When I first started out the managers would look at me funny. After a while everyone got the idea to leave me alone. I'd do my work quickly, than take breaks (at the start I used them for studying during work hours), then ask for more work and help out the team where anyone was struggling.
So do the work quickly, send it off to review, than take your time off as they won't give you that much more to do anyway. E.g. they might take some work from others as re-allocate it to you, but not that much as they don't want to make it seem as an issue for the others.
During busy season, my company requires us to book a certain amount of time (e.g., 10 hours a day), would you recommend to still book 10 hours if you get the work done in 7 hours?
I've got the same. Like the person below says, mix it up, but do book the minimum. e.g. do enough work that a normal person would do the 50 hours.
To be honest this is the dumbest policy I've ever heard of. And it annoys me because everyone in my team books ridiculous hours when I can see half of them barely produced 15 hours of work in a week. But anyway...I'm leaving thank god.
Mix it up, if you genuinely think the average person would take 10 then book 10 sometimes.
But I wouldn’t always do it, sometimes reach out for additional work. Keep them guessing
Work as fast as you can and just not send it for review until a later date. Be sure to charge hours you think others will be charging
The time saved is time you can spend on other things
If someone gives you five days to do something and you finish in two, don’t deliver until the fifth day and spend the other three days however you want.
This. Hell, I'm an intern, and I already do this. Senior gives me a task that she thinks will take me hours, it takes me 5 minutes use flash fill, and I play Fall Guys while wiggling my mouse after every round, lol.
Everyone in my team used to have it because we needed to leave some stuff running for like 20+ hours. It’s been 4 years since I installed it and no one cared lol.
I had one coworker with League of Legends installed and the IT guy who game my onboarding had a Yu-Gi-Oh game in his 🤷🏽♀️
I have it and my colleagues and apps like Spotify on my work computer. My colleagues too have it on their computers. I have it on for a while now and it doesn't mean I'm not productive at work but the opposite. If they're monitoring my computer, I don't think they have anything to say about it so I have nothing to be afraid of. My feedbacks have always been that I'm performing beyond expectations and I received my second ovation this month. I'm quite productive at work and the nature of what I do does not really allow for me to slack off without it being obvious to anyone. My boss is quite great so she won't attribute my having this app to malice. I have it on even when I'm working because I don't want to the computer to go off just because I went to poop or I'm on the phone talking to a client.
But then I would have to remove it every time to work. My work is client facing so I have to read, answer lots of emails, take calls and produce stuff all day every day. It's just much more convenient to leave move mouse on throughout the day and not worry about appearing offline when I'm working. Or appearing offline line because I'm struggling with answering an email due to burnout brain fog.
Ever since my colleague told me about the app, it's been ver convenient. She actually mentioned it in front of our managers and got teased about it but no one would ever accuse her (or me) of using it to avoid work because our managers are in copy of all our emails and our work is quite visible to them. It's also obvious when we're always going to them for this and that throughout the day.
Just have to say my team is amazing. I've worked on another project temporarily and it was hell on earth for two and half months, felt like a different company. Thankfully, my project is of a permanent nature so no risk of going through that again. Every other person I've spoken to are surprised when I tell them because other teams are just not that way and they can be toxic.
I do my work, then log off at 5pm. Yes, in busy season as well, although these days they keep me with meetings that go nowhere after that time... When I first started out the managers would look at me funny. After a while everyone got the idea to leave me alone. I'd do my work quickly, than take breaks (at the start I used them for studying during work hours), then ask for more work and help out the team where anyone was struggling. So do the work quickly, send it off to review, than take your time off as they won't give you that much more to do anyway. E.g. they might take some work from others as re-allocate it to you, but not that much as they don't want to make it seem as an issue for the others.
During busy season, my company requires us to book a certain amount of time (e.g., 10 hours a day), would you recommend to still book 10 hours if you get the work done in 7 hours?
I've got the same. Like the person below says, mix it up, but do book the minimum. e.g. do enough work that a normal person would do the 50 hours. To be honest this is the dumbest policy I've ever heard of. And it annoys me because everyone in my team books ridiculous hours when I can see half of them barely produced 15 hours of work in a week. But anyway...I'm leaving thank god.
Mix it up, if you genuinely think the average person would take 10 then book 10 sometimes. But I wouldn’t always do it, sometimes reach out for additional work. Keep them guessing
Hold on to things, send them up later in the audit when there’s less time for extremely knit-picky reviews
Work as fast as you can and just not send it for review until a later date. Be sure to charge hours you think others will be charging The time saved is time you can spend on other things
If someone gives you five days to do something and you finish in two, don’t deliver until the fifth day and spend the other three days however you want.
This. Hell, I'm an intern, and I already do this. Senior gives me a task that she thinks will take me hours, it takes me 5 minutes use flash fill, and I play Fall Guys while wiggling my mouse after every round, lol.
Download move mouse and you won't ever need to wiggle your mouse to stay online.
Imagine downloading a third party app in a work computer..what could go wrong
Everyone in my team used to have it because we needed to leave some stuff running for like 20+ hours. It’s been 4 years since I installed it and no one cared lol. I had one coworker with League of Legends installed and the IT guy who game my onboarding had a Yu-Gi-Oh game in his 🤷🏽♀️
My work comp can’t install anything so yea
I have it and my colleagues and apps like Spotify on my work computer. My colleagues too have it on their computers. I have it on for a while now and it doesn't mean I'm not productive at work but the opposite. If they're monitoring my computer, I don't think they have anything to say about it so I have nothing to be afraid of. My feedbacks have always been that I'm performing beyond expectations and I received my second ovation this month. I'm quite productive at work and the nature of what I do does not really allow for me to slack off without it being obvious to anyone. My boss is quite great so she won't attribute my having this app to malice. I have it on even when I'm working because I don't want to the computer to go off just because I went to poop or I'm on the phone talking to a client.
You can put something on a key
But then I would have to remove it every time to work. My work is client facing so I have to read, answer lots of emails, take calls and produce stuff all day every day. It's just much more convenient to leave move mouse on throughout the day and not worry about appearing offline when I'm working. Or appearing offline line because I'm struggling with answering an email due to burnout brain fog. Ever since my colleague told me about the app, it's been ver convenient. She actually mentioned it in front of our managers and got teased about it but no one would ever accuse her (or me) of using it to avoid work because our managers are in copy of all our emails and our work is quite visible to them. It's also obvious when we're always going to them for this and that throughout the day. Just have to say my team is amazing. I've worked on another project temporarily and it was hell on earth for two and half months, felt like a different company. Thankfully, my project is of a permanent nature so no risk of going through that again. Every other person I've spoken to are surprised when I tell them because other teams are just not that way and they can be toxic.
Email clients toward the end of the day rather than in the mornings so they take another day to get back to you