a vote about working efficiency
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Define morning. :) Sometimes I'll rise at 4am and get two days worth of work done by 9am, before the yahoos get in.
Charlie Gilley Will program for food... Hurtling toward a government of the stupid, by the stupid, for the stupid we go. —Michelle Malkin
You can get into your office at 4am? I start early and finish early (at the office), I wish I could work from home again!
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity RAH
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You can get into your office at 4am? I start early and finish early (at the office), I wish I could work from home again!
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity RAH
Cake. Get up. Walk downstairs. Put coffee in cup, microwave 60 seconds. Go to bathroom. Get back to microwave before #$%$^%#$ beeper goes off. Walk 10 feet. Boot computer. Oh yes, I can get to "the office" at 4am. Well, 415....
Charlie Gilley Will program for food... Hurtling toward a government of the stupid, by the stupid, for the stupid we go. —Michelle Malkin
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Mornings, although there tends to be more interruptions. But I get my second wind around 10pm and have to force myself to stop or I can really keep going into until daybreak. Then again, I work from my home right now.
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Cake. Get up. Walk downstairs. Put coffee in cup, microwave 60 seconds. Go to bathroom. Get back to microwave before #$%$^%#$ beeper goes off. Walk 10 feet. Boot computer. Oh yes, I can get to "the office" at 4am. Well, 415....
Charlie Gilley Will program for food... Hurtling toward a government of the stupid, by the stupid, for the stupid we go. —Michelle Malkin
:sigh: I remember, one of the best contracts I ever had was with AMP (Sydney) in 2000, as an olympic sponsor they had a policy to work from home, bliss, I never even had a desk in the office, just a hot machine. PM used to arrange meetings at 3pm on Fridays - at my place.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity RAH
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I couldn't disagree more. People's metabolisms vary widely, and it's not something you can change by corporate policy. I function at my peak between 2PM and 9PM, and I always have. My company starts work at 7AM and quits at 4PM. Over the past three years I've learned to wake up in time (5AM) to get to work, but I can't function until about 9 or so. Neither can anyone else. That means I take a lot of work home, because it just isn't physically or mentally possible to do it during working hours. And I'm not the only one. An electrical utility, our company has office staff (me, the accountant, the customer service lady, the meter guy, and the boss), and outside staff (linemen). The linemen start at 5AM in Summer to avoid the peak heat of the day, which can easily exceed 120°F, and quit by 1PM. They arrive on time, but get nothing done until 7AM, and usually want to quit by 11AM. In the office, we arrive at 7AM, but can get nothing done until 9AM because no other company we deal with opens until then. That's just as well, because none of us is in any mood to work until then, anyway. Most of our morning time is spent doing brainless administrative stuff that does little to accomplish our goals. We all tend to arrive with a plan in mind for the day, but until 9 or 10 we can't remember what the plan was. By then the boss shows up, and his priorities have changed overnight, so anything we'd planned on doing is out the window. In summary, any claim that mornings are more productive is corporate bullshit, promulgated by idiots who wake up early because they have nothing better to do with their useless, empty lives.
"A Journey of a Thousand Rest Stops Begins with a Single Movement"
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I couldn't disagree more. People's metabolisms vary widely, and it's not something you can change by corporate policy. I function at my peak between 2PM and 9PM, and I always have. My company starts work at 7AM and quits at 4PM. Over the past three years I've learned to wake up in time (5AM) to get to work, but I can't function until about 9 or so. Neither can anyone else. That means I take a lot of work home, because it just isn't physically or mentally possible to do it during working hours. And I'm not the only one. An electrical utility, our company has office staff (me, the accountant, the customer service lady, the meter guy, and the boss), and outside staff (linemen). The linemen start at 5AM in Summer to avoid the peak heat of the day, which can easily exceed 120°F, and quit by 1PM. They arrive on time, but get nothing done until 7AM, and usually want to quit by 11AM. In the office, we arrive at 7AM, but can get nothing done until 9AM because no other company we deal with opens until then. That's just as well, because none of us is in any mood to work until then, anyway. Most of our morning time is spent doing brainless administrative stuff that does little to accomplish our goals. We all tend to arrive with a plan in mind for the day, but until 9 or 10 we can't remember what the plan was. By then the boss shows up, and his priorities have changed overnight, so anything we'd planned on doing is out the window. In summary, any claim that mornings are more productive is corporate bullshit, promulgated by idiots who wake up early because they have nothing better to do with their useless, empty lives.
"A Journey of a Thousand Rest Stops Begins with a Single Movement"
Roger Wright wrote:
In summary, any claim that mornings are more productive is corporate bullsh*t, promulgated by idiots who wake up early because they have nothing better to do with their useless, empty lives.
Nice poetry! :laugh:
A train station is where the train stops. A bus station is where the bus stops. On my desk, I have a work station.... _________________________________________________________ My programs never have bugs, they just develop random features.
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Roger Wright wrote:
In summary, any claim that mornings are more productive is corporate bullsh*t, promulgated by idiots who wake up early because they have nothing better to do with their useless, empty lives.
Nice poetry! :laugh:
A train station is where the train stops. A bus station is where the bus stops. On my desk, I have a work station.... _________________________________________________________ My programs never have bugs, they just develop random features.
Thanks, Lloyd (my dad's name, btw). But I'd always thought that poetry was composed of dreams of how the world should be, and prose of the vision of the way the world really is. I think my description belongs in the prose category - but I'm no expert... :)
"A Journey of a Thousand Rest Stops Begins with a Single Movement"
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Thanks, Lloyd (my dad's name, btw). But I'd always thought that poetry was composed of dreams of how the world should be, and prose of the vision of the way the world really is. I think my description belongs in the prose category - but I'm no expert... :)
"A Journey of a Thousand Rest Stops Begins with a Single Movement"
Very good name! I'm not sure the world is just like that, but I always find the curmudgeon attitude quite funny! :cool:
A train station is where the train stops. A bus station is where the bus stops. On my desk, I have a work station.... _________________________________________________________ My programs never have bugs, they just develop random features.
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Last couple of hours before sleeping is most efficient for me I think... not sure if it's the realisation that the day really *is* running out, or that may brain's too tired to accomodate any other thoughts except the job at hand. :doh:
"For fifty bucks I'd put my face in their soup and blow." - George Costanza
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Depends how I feel in the morning...
-------------------------------------------------------- Knowledge is knowing that the tomato is a fruit. Wisdom is not putting it in fruit salad!!
I agree, and it usually depends on how good the coffee was :)
"The clue train passed his station without stopping." - John Simmons / outlaw programmer "Real programmers just throw a bunch of 1s and 0s at the computer to see what sticks" - Pete O'Hanlon "Not only do you continue to babble nonsense, you can't even correctly remember the nonsense you babbled just minutes ago." - Rob Graham
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I find it better after a couple :beer:s.
"The clue train passed his station without stopping." - John Simmons / outlaw programmer "Real programmers just throw a bunch of 1s and 0s at the computer to see what sticks" - Pete O'Hanlon "Not only do you continue to babble nonsense, you can't even correctly remember the nonsense you babbled just minutes ago." - Rob Graham
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If you define "morning" as "period of the day where most people are still at sleep, or at least out of office"... Yes. On the other hand, it's not unnormal with a slight performance peek in the late friday afternoons :laugh: Cheers /Jonas
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Personally I definitely work better in the morning, but this is for a number of reasons. I work from home so start before the office wakes up so nobody is interrupting me but also my mind is clearer first thing. Depending on the task and my current level of motivation my productivity may fall a bit or a lot as the day goes on. This depends a lot on the number of interruptions - this is easy to realise as if I work after the office is closed my productivity goes back up! One thing I need to do is to pay attention to who said don't check emails in the morning. This can end up taking you off on 50 different tangients from the task(s) you'd planned for the day and when the dust has settled you're brain is full of mush. As I write this I'm just turning off the Outlook new mail pop up, should have done that a long time ago....
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I couldn't disagree more. People's metabolisms vary widely, and it's not something you can change by corporate policy. I function at my peak between 2PM and 9PM, and I always have. My company starts work at 7AM and quits at 4PM. Over the past three years I've learned to wake up in time (5AM) to get to work, but I can't function until about 9 or so. Neither can anyone else. That means I take a lot of work home, because it just isn't physically or mentally possible to do it during working hours. And I'm not the only one. An electrical utility, our company has office staff (me, the accountant, the customer service lady, the meter guy, and the boss), and outside staff (linemen). The linemen start at 5AM in Summer to avoid the peak heat of the day, which can easily exceed 120°F, and quit by 1PM. They arrive on time, but get nothing done until 7AM, and usually want to quit by 11AM. In the office, we arrive at 7AM, but can get nothing done until 9AM because no other company we deal with opens until then. That's just as well, because none of us is in any mood to work until then, anyway. Most of our morning time is spent doing brainless administrative stuff that does little to accomplish our goals. We all tend to arrive with a plan in mind for the day, but until 9 or 10 we can't remember what the plan was. By then the boss shows up, and his priorities have changed overnight, so anything we'd planned on doing is out the window. In summary, any claim that mornings are more productive is corporate bullshit, promulgated by idiots who wake up early because they have nothing better to do with their useless, empty lives.
"A Journey of a Thousand Rest Stops Begins with a Single Movement"
Someone here is disgruntled about his work and taking it out on others!
Roger Wright wrote:
idiots who wake up early because they have nothing better to do with their useless, empty lives.
And just for the record, I AM a morning guy. I get to the office at 7:00am to 7:30am before most people do. The quiet and lack of interruptions allow me to get much more work done than throughout the rest of the day. Great minds think alike, creative minds think originally.
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Of course there's no right or wrong answer to this but you know that already right? :) People have differing biological clocks which makes them more efficient and productive at differing times of the 24 hour cycle from each other.
"It's so simple to be wise. Just think of something stupid to say and then don't say it." -Sam Levenson
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I like to work in the mornings, too. The best time for me is when it's not so bright yet outside and it's quiet. But unfortunately I tend to start my day with a cup of coffee, mail, news and forums so usually it's already 10AM before I start working. :D I almost never use the computer in the evenings, so morning is the best (and only) time that I can read news and some articles.
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It depends on the kind of work. Grunt work is best done in the morning. Planning is best done in the evening.
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If you define working efficiently as 'getting stuff done', I tend to find I get more done after 4:30-5pm, when the potential interruptions start going home...
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The morning is the worst time for me to get into coding. I am a naturally late-to-bed and late-to-rise type of person and being in office at 8:30 am is one of the most difficult things to do ;P I normally prefer to perform the routine tasks, check overs and maintenance things in the first half of the day. The best time when my coding mode, logics and speed is on peak starts from 4:00pm. My office is off at 6:30 pm but its not rare when I am in full flow, I use to sit in office at least till 8:30 pm. Bottom Line - My coding modes starts in the early evening. Morning is normally dull coding wise... :omg: Khurram.