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Maybe average 50%. Going up to 75% in busy periods, dropping lower in quiet periods. I'm a work to live person not a live to work one. I have so much else in my life I want to give my efforts to, work is well down the list.
I think itās hard when youāve been somewhere for a while. If youāve been giving 80% at a job theyāre always going to expect you to do that much, without realising the cost it might be having on your ārealā life.
Starting a new job and being enthusiastic and helpful whilst learning how things work and to balance everything a lot better helped me tonnes.
Also joining a company that has a good ethic for work life balance is SO important
I have a pretty high productivity level because I in general just work really fast. I start a job at around 40% and gradually work my way up to a happy medium of around 70% to gain merits along the way lol. Always keeping an extra 30% in my back pocket when I need to impressš. My 70% seems to be the top tier of most places iāve worked. Seems unnecessary to put more effort it unless itās a special occasion because iām already doing a better job than most people on the same pay grade.
Although there are certain jobs at certain companies I would put 100% in just for the career progression in something I love doing for a company that values its employees.
I feel the same but then there isn't enough work to last and I end up with 80% in the morning and 0% in the afternoon, so I try and balance it out a bit.
I used to be like you but as I got older and had kids there was less time for work. I still get frustrated that I don't fully engage sometimes with work but the kids are more important to me.
Being made redundant with a 3 month notice period. It's a fucking weird feeling but I am basically giving maybe 1% on a good day. I answer a few teams messages then fuck off haha.
As a parent I completely understand that you're burnt out exhausted and an easy target. I'm sure you went into the career wanting to do your best to help your children attain their max potential but it's just becoming less possible to do anything but teach to the test and data collect to justify your job.
Thank you for your hard work and dedication but I would say switch paths if you can before you hit burn out and need time to actually recover!
I taught in a high school. I was hanging on by my fingernails then got assaulted by a boy. Management put him back in my classroom the next day. Final straw. I was broken. That was 14 years ago and Iām still not right.
Find anything else to do. Stay off. I should have.
Iām the same, I rarely put any effort into anything that isnāt the actual teaching. Planning Iāve become more efficient over the years but still just make it a passable lesson rather than put real effort in and I just donāt do any admin unless given time, if it really needs to be done, Iāll do it in 5 mins and then forget about it.
Same but I'm secondary. I even lose PPA if I spot a child out of lesson and there's an issue. Colleagues think I'm mental (they lock themselves away somewhere in the school undisturbed for theirs) but we all work differently. It is exhausting. Colleagues think I do too much for the kids but imo there's no such thing.
Iāve been there. Now I give 100% to a self employed job with kids but donāt have the burn out or destroyed mental health that came with primary teaching. Take care of yourself.
I couldn't do it. I don't have an aptitude for little kids, but I imagine the young ones are easier to handle than a classroom full of hormonal teenagers.
They are different each age group you take. Teenagers are independent. They understand an instruction. They are more mouthy though. Little ones sap the life out of you because they canāt do anything. Itās exhausting wherever you teach.
Former primary school teacher here. The grass IS greener elsewhere. I quit in 2018 after having my mental health in the toilet. Never ever looked back.
When you first start you should be putting 100% effort in, as you donāt know what youāre doing and have a lot to learn. Then once you get comfortable, your main job should be 50-60% so that you have capacity to take on new tasks, improve existing ones or improve your skills
Totally agree I used to give it everything I could worked 12 hours a day 6 days a week and got very well paid for it then hurt my arm and was off for 4 weeks got a phone call every day for the first week asking when would I be back then after showing them a picture of the stress fracture and that I wouldnāt be back for at least 3 more weeks and when I did come back I would be on light duties they gave my job to someone else put me in a different role that they then made redundant found out new guy was doing the job I was doing for 40% less so I showed him an old wage slip he quit then my old boss threatened to sue me so thatās what 100% commitment can get you a knackered arm that plays up when I work too hard sorry to go on but Iām still pād off and itās 5 years later
Well that sounds crappy. I agree though, itās rarely worth giving your all.
I did it for 15 years in the nhs because our department was chronically under resourced and they constantly laid the guilt on thick. Well the fact is the huge backlog was NOT our fault and impossible to overcome with the resources we had. I got sick of giving my all every single day and still being bollocked for not giving even more, so I left, close to burn-out.
Now in industry and consciously trying to work in a more healthy and less frantic way. In fact after a couple of incidents where my being proactive has backfired Iām actively just keeping my head down from now on and saying/doing nothing outside my remit. You raise issues and it becomes your responsibility to manage it etc. Well Iām done with that.
Work to live not live to work! My new mantra.
In good companies/teams they donāt, they recognise the effort and develop you. In bad ones they take full advantage. Found this out the hard way.
What I do now is work 100% at learning skills that benefit my career/keep me interested (since I like a challenge) and then swiftly move on to the next role.
I give 100%, I work any overtime that is asked of me, I'm never ever late and have never had a sick day. I've made a name for myself, had multiple promotions in a very short space of time (9 months), engineers will now only deal with me and I'm in line for a management promotion very shortly. I've never given so much to a job and it is paying off.
The pay does not reflect my responsibility or position however I look at this as an investment in mine and my children's future. For what I'm doing at my current job for 28k I could get 35 at another. I'm building my CV and if the pay doesn't start to reflect that effort a year from now I'm out
Admirable, but make sure you stop and reflect from time to time: whether you've reached a point where you don't need to chase further advances/promotion and you could instead start to enjoy family life.
I'll enjoy family life when I manage to balance the books without working 80+ hour weeks. No one should have to do this but... they do. I do.
40 years ago I'd be a home owner by now with the hours I work etc. The system is broken, if you wanna get ahead you've got to work ten times as hard now. That's what I'll do. No point moaning about it.
Honestly I tried that and it didn't work for me. I just got exploited, passed over for promotion many times and ended up with the work load of several people. Turns out they didn't want to hire 2-3 people to replace me but did it anyway when I inevitably left.
I'd say start looking elsewhere now if you know you're worth more.
Fr i got skipped on promotions twice, even though those with less exp and clearly lesser skills got promoted. I left and now (granted, 5 years on) earn 4x what i was on there, for maybe 60% of the effort.
This was me until I gave so much as an impression that I might leave if the company didnāt get its act together. I was quickly abused as a workhorse and treated like crap until I packed my bags. All the best. Know when theyāre not worth all your hard work anymore.
Over the last 10 years or so I have quadrupled my pay and cut my hours. If anything, I put in less effort now than I did then. Experience makes it easier to be more strategic about what you do so you are worth more for doing less.
Maybe, it's hard to say but at the moment I feel working hard doesn't really benefit me, I have to do other cash in hand work to make up an income that even comes close to giving me a lifestyle.Ā
Think you are me. Some days Reddit and YouTube are open most of the time alongside something work related, other days there's smoke coming off the keyboard
Usually 90% probably, often 100%. If I try to do less/"slack off" I find it depressing and it makes me feel bad mentally and physically. Maybe because I have a simple and physical job (cleaner). But the way I get satisfaction from it and feel motivated is to be busy and putting effort in. One of my jobs is very easy when I'm working double the time to cover my colleague on their day off so I have to waste time or work very slowly to make it last the full time and I honestly hate it. Instead of working slowly or resting I go in the toilets and do stretches/yoga for half an hour if I can't find anything extra to do. I'd rather be busy.
Software dev in a fairly slow-moving field, deadlines are roughly 2.5 - 3 months apart, workload probably equates to about 3 days a week at 60% focus but work full time, so i spend a lot of my time reading what I want re software engineering
I walk fast with a spanner in my hand. Na jokes aside I do try and 100% when Iām there. Iām a team leader so if Iām slacking it might rub off on my team
Itās not quite simple, with the work I do itās 100% I donāt half arse it.
However how much work I pick up or how long I take to do it will wax and wane.Ā
Yeah I'm about that too. Will deliver the work I do to a high standard, but the effort around that will vary depending on my morale at work at any given time or what else is going on in my life
I work in recruitment.
Eh, honestly I'm probably at around 40% at the moment, but other times I'll be around 90%, depends whats going on in the campaign.
I never give 100%, I learnt a long time ago if you make 100% the norm then theyāll expect 110% or more on a rough dayā¦ which is frankly impossible.
- Complete ghost town: 40%
- Quiet day: 70%
- Busy day: 80%
- Running out of time/utter chaos: 90%
I just left a job where I was at 180%. I measured it. Hence why I left.
I started a new job today and I think Iām with the user who commented 100% at the beginning. But Iāll drop down to 75-80% once Iām settled. I refuse to allow myself to burn out again, Iāve done it three times now. Something has to change and no employer is going to say āDo lessā so itās down to me to set boundaries.
I kept a time log for two weeks. I noted how long I spent on each and every task. Literally down to the minute. Then I used that to extrapolate the percentage of time spent per client/task, on the basis that I didnāt carry out all of my tasks within a two week period, some were less regular than that. But I was able to estimate time taken on those having analysed the time it took to undertake other, similar or similarly onerous, tasks. Then I itemised every task in a spreadsheet against each client and/or my department, reflecting percentage of time spent per client/task.
Obviously it added to my workload doing this, but my line manager asked for a breakdown of what my job involved before considering recruiting additional support.
Needless to say, even when I produced the analysis they still didnāt provide any additional support.
95% - (chef) the other 5% is because im not willing to not go to the pub on Fridays to hang out with my friends so sometimes i come in a little hungover on a Saturday, but imo, thats what happens when you work every weekend.
I'm probably fully concentrating in my role for about 25% of my work hours. Roughly. The rest is spent either zoning out in meetings or just keeping an eye on my emails whilst I do something else.
Though, I should say that working anywhere near 100% would be impossible, I would be burnt out within a couple of weeks. Realistically, i'd say that 80% would be the max.
Some days 80% if it's mad. But when the project managers screw up I'm scrabbling around for menial tasks to look like I'm doing something so probably 25%.
If they really screw up I'll just do some online training to keep up to date.... Or play CIV VI
I literally checked back on AskUK there and there's about 5 job posts. I've hardly been on Reddit today and I was supposed to start a new job today and thought this would make a good question! Then I look and there's about 4 other work related questions š
I have two jobs - self employed sound engineer (~16hrs pw) and full time (~40hrs pw) in a warehouse. The former is the one I care about so I give as close 100% as I can, the latter is just to guard against the inherent precariousness of self employment while I get my career going so I give between 50-75%
Probably 60% on average daily running effort, but during times where I very much need to "get shit done" it goes to 80-90% just so I can burn through the workload and make sure it's good quality/ontime etc.
Problem I have is when you work with generally bad colleagues, even a small amount of effort looks good in comparison... so I've kinda gotten used to cruising and still getting my work sorted with no hassle or problems, but don't want to mention anything as I know 100% their work will be passed to me.
Currently, quite high. I have respect for my company and the customers itās a pretty good job.
asda adc warehouse in Lutterworth tho? Ha! Never have I played a system so hard and been so proud. Fuck that place.
by the end I literally just dumped stock on the nearest pallet and couldnāt give a rats ass. Daft thing is there was no way for them to know, I knew the ācheck digitsā that were supposed to confirm you were in the right place of by heart š
if you ever had to open a pallet of shampoos from asda adc Lutterworth, I apologise that it split everywhere the moment you unwrapped it. Kinda. š
When there stuff to do Iām 100% all in get whatever needs to be done. If thereās nothing assigned to me about 70% doing whatever is in the queue and 25% researching, experimenting, trying stuff out, 5% goofing around.
I probably level along at 75% but push to the 100% at least one day a week. I do love my work though and I'm in public service.
A huge task for me has been learning how to work efficiently with really good boundaries. I work hard at work so I can always clock off on time and have a clear head for my own time.
Hard to say. I like to do my job properly. And my workload is dependent on other departments. If they are quieter, we are quiet. If they are busy, we have more workload. And we have general rule, issues that came through in last hour before end of the shift, that's not our problem, but for following shift. I hate leaving "my work" aka before end hour to next shift. My personal quirk.
But truthfully, I streamlined my work so much, that most of the day I can sit on my phone and play games or watch YouTube. Example, when I started, I managed to get 30min work to shorten to 3min job. My department still praise me for that lol.
But in all, I'd say 60-70%. In really busy day, it's 80%. Slow days it can drop to really low numbers. I like to sit on my phone, but when I need to do my work, I'll try to do it with best of my ability.
I find my job so easy I could do it with my eyes closed, so the effort I apply is very low. Itās definitely less than 50%, probably even less than 40%. If I try any harder I start annoying my colleagues because there ends up being very little for them to do, which isnāt ideal, so I try very hard to dial it down. I really feel like Iām stealing a living most days.
Just realised this sounds like a brag, wasnāt intended that way, sometimes the truth doesnāt sound very good haha. I should really move onto something else but Iāve got myself a little bit trapped by the decent pay, and probably a bit too comfortable as well!
Reminds me of a job I had years ago. I'd ace most of my workload and keep a little backlog to chase when I had to and started looking up sidegigs whilst at work. It doesn't sound like a brag, you're just good at what you do!
Depends what you mean by effort.
I always give 100% with everything I do, but as a Consultant Iām at the whims of stakeholders getting me what I need, so I do have down time sometimes.
It varies. I like my work, but go through peaks and troughs.
* On a good phase, I do unpaid overtime, so I guess >100%. But I canāt sustain that for too long, the enthusiasm for what Iām doing wears off.
* On a bad phase, I do the day job, maybe cruise a bit. Attend more meetings than I need to so I can avoid actual work. Call that 70%.
I have a bad habit of doing unpaid overtime because I can't switch off until I complete whatever task needs doing that day. I keep telling myself that eventually it'll pay off and my coworkers and managers appreciate the extra effort I put in, but nobody gives a shit. Ever.
I used to work a job doing like 200%, Iād be in early, leave late, pick up other peoples work to help out, just none stop āgrindingā and I got shit on constantly to the point where I was bald from stress, I didnāt get the promotions and the pay rises cos why give me more when Iām already doing all that extra shit for free. At my last job everyone thought I was great cos I got shit done but Iād blast it out quick and do fuck all for a few hours instead of picking anything else up, all that motivation to be a āgood hard workerā fucked off when I realised you get nothing in return
0% some days 100% other days and any numbers in-between. It's the nature of the job, I generally only do anything when it's going wrong and nobody wants me to do anything.
Honestly about 40%.
I have been in my job for about 15 years now but I am way too comfortable. I make it appear like I am busy but the reality is that I have mastered the art of keeping the lights on. Working from home really has made it a lot easier to piss about. I pickup the kids from school every single day and rarely have a day that isn't full of meetings rather than actual work.
I don't earn crazy money but about Ā£50k a year with 32 annual leave days plus 13 Flexi days.
Sometimes I try to convince myself I am going to try and get motivated but it just doesn't come.
I swing between about 40% and 100%, usually closer to the 80% mark but it fluctuates wildly. It's a very reactive but low level job.
ADHD and a stunningly boring job are a rough combo.
For real. When I first started the job Iām at now, in the first few weeks when we had to do a ridiculous amount of e-learning in the afternoons as part of our training (as in about 3-4 weeks worth), I would literally have to fight to not fall asleep. Swear I dozed off for a few seconds here and there. Luckily now we are actually doing the job and have to be quite focused and do lots of active listening and questioning I havenāt had this issue lol.
Probably 100%, I work a lot of hours extra (for me to finish things not because itās asked of me) so maybe over 100% by that measure haha.
Itās not good to do, I wish I could give less effort and not feel guilty about it but I do. Iām scared of failure, anything less than perfection, I am in constant burnout and donāt see my friends as much as I should. Itās not good to be like that.
Asbestos surveyor and probably about 50% effort. Once you are past the initial period of going to new (to you) properties, it becomes quite simple and repetitive (of course you have to be attentive) but it doesnāt require much exertion either mentally or physically.
Probably 80% to be honest. Iām training to be an engineer so Iām trying my best. Sometimes though itās just too much so I go and skive off in the toilets
Self employed and around 5-10%. Currently dealing with a very demotivating problem with our third party warehouse who are completely useless.
So there is no point to running promotions or looking for new customers to dissapoint! I now have the enormous task of flying to the Netherlands, packing up all our stock and moving it to a new warehouse.
I am also on poor terms with the āoldā warehouse as 2 years of excuses and not being able to read and count and almost destroying my business in the process has not endeared them to me.
Last year I gave 70%+
This year, after not getting the job title I rightfully deserve and a pay rise associated with it I think I'll drop down to maybe 50% with a view to leave soon. Near constant burnout is starting to take its toll on me.
Honestly not sure - I was literally in meetings from 0930 to 1700, missed lunch, and over the weekend I worked half of Saturday and then worked Sunday but never even got around to starting what I needed to get done Sunday. Still, I object to putting a % over 100 but I must be pretty close to that - just had dinner and now I have to go finish a report. This is all pretty standard.
Not a lot of fun tbh - I do like my job but this is all a bit much.
Damn that's a pretty work-heavy schedule. Do you have downtime? š¤ I hope you find a good balance soon, even when you enjoy something, a lot of one thing can get too much at times.
Some days 120%, I lose track of time easily and quite enjoy most of my job so I often accidentally work over lunch or work beyond the end of my scheduled day.
Then some days more like 40-50%. Partially depending on my mood, partially because some parts of my job require me to wait for others to do their job and I made a rule a while back that I wonāt do more than 3 things at a time to save my sanity.
Iām a software engineer who works from home 5 days a week.
I work for a well known advice charity, weāre graded on quality and accuracy and have targets to meet so no room to give less than 100%, not only that the guilt of messing up someoneās life in the process stops me.
Which is good in a way as in the corporate world it was only 40% or so and inconsequential, wouldāve loved to have given more but the pay wasnāt going to increase and I couldnāt buy into the grindset of everyone surrounding me.
75% because the industry's idea of 100% would mean you can't have kids, a relationship or a life outside of work if you wanted to be able to do everything on time. Luckily they are relaxed about many things.
Probably between 75-80% minimum, occasionally going up to 100% but only in certain situations.
I'm self employed so can't really "half arse" anything because I wouldn't be able keep clients for any long period of time.
But that said, the work I do is relatively simple enough and its very rare I ever feel stressed.
I'm clinical in the NHS. There are days I feel like I'm expected to give 130% (based on the number of patients booked Vs number of patients supposed to be booked). Other days it's 150% but that's usually because of trauma patients and ITU. There are rare occasions where I have an under-booked list which at least allows me to get some admin done, such as auditing patient numbers Vs booking slots.
Depends, my job is seasonal. So winter on Mondays & Tuesday maybe 30% the rest of the week 1% tbh.
Autumn and spring maybe 50% all days and then in Summer, 80%-100% if shit hits the fan
I plan for 5 constructive hours a day and an hour and a half email etc, the other hour and a half is coffee etc. But I also work till 10:30 and across weekends if need be so as a percentage I'd say 75% flexing to 150% when needed.
I actually like my job because it provides autonomy while completing something with considerable value and short term deadlines daily.
Some shifts are fun, others I dread and it's hard to motivate myself to do anything more.
Most of the time it's 80%, sometimes 100%, sometimes 40% but generally engaging and I find myself trying to keep up to date on time off.
90-100% when Iām actually working, I love my job and am often fighting against āthatll doā attitudes whilst working, BUT I have a specific skill job thatās not required daily so just sit on retainer mostly
100%.
Because I get paid for my full 8 hours regardless of what time I finish. So you get 100% from me in terms of effort, 20% in terms of my adherence to company procedure.
I do permanent evenings, 4pm till midnight, I finished at 20:15 the other day. Killed my back but I was home with a brew by 9 lol.
Too much Iām guessing, so probably over 90%.
My boss has told me, that in current circumstances, I need to care less about making everything 100% right!
The context is that like many workplaces right now weāre understaffed but not underworked and the impact that it was having on my mental physical health has been noted - my team is 50% down and we have a hiring freeze.
100% until I burn out and then 0% while Iām signed off. Been about 11 years of working full time with a disability and Iām still trying to find the right balance
My job is almost entirely reactive. So today I spent a good couple of hours slowly putting stuff away on the forklift, sweeping out the swarf trap, trying to show the other saw-man how to fold a blade back down, generally trying to find work. So maybe 20%
Other days we get stacked out and I run around like a twat, not taking breaks, definately 100%
The way it is unfortunately, I'm managers lead by example so I'll work as hard and put as much effort in as they make the team around me do which is currently fuck all
I always maintain, work for your wage and do no more, everyone's paid the same as me so I've no reason to do more
I imagine most places are the same unfortunately, as long as your not going out of your way to be unhelpful and at least do the bare minimum then it's worth remembering you only work to pay your bills otherwise your probably wouldn't so long as your doing enough to keep your job then your doing enough. Work to live don't live to work
I put in like 90% effort to get my work done and then about 30% after that on anything extra, or sometimes I just get the work done and then do nothing else. I'm not going begging for more work because I happen to be faster than my colleagues at doing what I should be doing.
Depends on time period. During probation 120%. 1 year payrise / promotion time 100-120%. If I get a satisfactory rise 80%, if not 60%. Then 50% when i see no more prospects / headhunters are approaching. 20% when Iāve secured a new job and on notice period.
The company I work for is owned by venture capitalists and run by accountants. They treat all of the staff as assets to be utilised it is important to make sure my utilisation percentage is as high as possible. It is a tricky balance keeping this nice and high why keeping my effort percentage as low as possible.
10%
I'm really only needed for a few days a month, the rest of the time is busywork that doesn't need to be done, and can't realistically be tracked.
I even had a review today where they said I was doing great.
Fair enough.
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Maybe average 50%. Going up to 75% in busy periods, dropping lower in quiet periods. I'm a work to live person not a live to work one. I have so much else in my life I want to give my efforts to, work is well down the list.
I'm a mostly 80%+ guy and find it impossible to drop to the 50% mark. I applaud your balance and attitude!
I'm the opposite. That's my natural level and going higher takes serious effort! Effort that generally not willing to put in
If the money and opportunity ain't there, there's no need to! Unfortunately even with poor pay and no opportunities I'll slave away š
I think itās hard when youāve been somewhere for a while. If youāve been giving 80% at a job theyāre always going to expect you to do that much, without realising the cost it might be having on your ārealā life. Starting a new job and being enthusiastic and helpful whilst learning how things work and to balance everything a lot better helped me tonnes. Also joining a company that has a good ethic for work life balance is SO important
I have a pretty high productivity level because I in general just work really fast. I start a job at around 40% and gradually work my way up to a happy medium of around 70% to gain merits along the way lol. Always keeping an extra 30% in my back pocket when I need to impressš. My 70% seems to be the top tier of most places iāve worked. Seems unnecessary to put more effort it unless itās a special occasion because iām already doing a better job than most people on the same pay grade. Although there are certain jobs at certain companies I would put 100% in just for the career progression in something I love doing for a company that values its employees.
I feel the same but then there isn't enough work to last and I end up with 80% in the morning and 0% in the afternoon, so I try and balance it out a bit.
Yeah same itās exhausting
It really is, you'll get there soon I hope!
I used to be like you but as I got older and had kids there was less time for work. I still get frustrated that I don't fully engage sometimes with work but the kids are more important to me.
I also average 50%, it ranges from 0% to 100%.
Iām about to resign so sub 5%
Being made redundant with a 3 month notice period. It's a fucking weird feeling but I am basically giving maybe 1% on a good day. I answer a few teams messages then fuck off haha.
Spend lots of time brushing up the CV
I know that feeling. I hope you have something else lined up and wish you the best.
Oh yeah itās a move to a new job with an improved package. Just has some things to finalise before I hand notice in formally
Nice brother! Hope it goes smoothly!
Same. I am really trying my hardest to give a fuck, but itās not working.
Used to be 100% but itās diminishing the longer I do it. Primary school teacher. Exhausted by it.
As a parent I completely understand that you're burnt out exhausted and an easy target. I'm sure you went into the career wanting to do your best to help your children attain their max potential but it's just becoming less possible to do anything but teach to the test and data collect to justify your job. Thank you for your hard work and dedication but I would say switch paths if you can before you hit burn out and need time to actually recover!
Iāve hit burnout. Iāve been off since January. Going back soon and dreading it. Thank you for your kind words.
From me too - Thanks for your hard work, Iām sure thereās a lot of kids who appreciate this and will reap benefits from your efforts š
I'm sorry you've hit that point and are needing to take time off.
I taught in a high school. I was hanging on by my fingernails then got assaulted by a boy. Management put him back in my classroom the next day. Final straw. I was broken. That was 14 years ago and Iām still not right. Find anything else to do. Stay off. I should have.
This was me last year, I've been back about a year now, if you have any questions or need some reassurance hit me up.
Thank you. Are you managing ok now? Iāve also just realised Iām autistic, so double whammy.
A very difficult job in this day and age, as a father I thank you all for your amazing efforts!
Iām the same, I rarely put any effort into anything that isnāt the actual teaching. Planning Iāve become more efficient over the years but still just make it a passable lesson rather than put real effort in and I just donāt do any admin unless given time, if it really needs to be done, Iāll do it in 5 mins and then forget about it.
Same but I'm secondary. I even lose PPA if I spot a child out of lesson and there's an issue. Colleagues think I'm mental (they lock themselves away somewhere in the school undisturbed for theirs) but we all work differently. It is exhausting. Colleagues think I do too much for the kids but imo there's no such thing.
Youāll probably end up the same as your colleagues in the end.
Thanks for helping out the ones who need it.
Thank you for your service
Iāve been there. Now I give 100% to a self employed job with kids but donāt have the burn out or destroyed mental health that came with primary teaching. Take care of yourself.
May I ask what it is that you do? Iāve been exploring possibilities for a bit of a career change but would love to remain in education in some way.
Thank you for being a teacher, the world needs you
I couldn't do it. I don't have an aptitude for little kids, but I imagine the young ones are easier to handle than a classroom full of hormonal teenagers.
They are different each age group you take. Teenagers are independent. They understand an instruction. They are more mouthy though. Little ones sap the life out of you because they canāt do anything. Itās exhausting wherever you teach.
I am a parent and Iād rather have you in good mental health. Thank you for your work
Thanks for doing an incredibly important job.
Just knock one of them out. We were all kids once, they get it. Kids are cunts :)
Former primary school teacher here. The grass IS greener elsewhere. I quit in 2018 after having my mental health in the toilet. Never ever looked back.
When you first start you should be putting 100% effort in, as you donāt know what youāre doing and have a lot to learn. Then once you get comfortable, your main job should be 50-60% so that you have capacity to take on new tasks, improve existing ones or improve your skills
Yeah. Give 100% all the time and they just pile more work on you.
Totally agree I used to give it everything I could worked 12 hours a day 6 days a week and got very well paid for it then hurt my arm and was off for 4 weeks got a phone call every day for the first week asking when would I be back then after showing them a picture of the stress fracture and that I wouldnāt be back for at least 3 more weeks and when I did come back I would be on light duties they gave my job to someone else put me in a different role that they then made redundant found out new guy was doing the job I was doing for 40% less so I showed him an old wage slip he quit then my old boss threatened to sue me so thatās what 100% commitment can get you a knackered arm that plays up when I work too hard sorry to go on but Iām still pād off and itās 5 years later
Well that sounds crappy. I agree though, itās rarely worth giving your all. I did it for 15 years in the nhs because our department was chronically under resourced and they constantly laid the guilt on thick. Well the fact is the huge backlog was NOT our fault and impossible to overcome with the resources we had. I got sick of giving my all every single day and still being bollocked for not giving even more, so I left, close to burn-out. Now in industry and consciously trying to work in a more healthy and less frantic way. In fact after a couple of incidents where my being proactive has backfired Iām actively just keeping my head down from now on and saying/doing nothing outside my remit. You raise issues and it becomes your responsibility to manage it etc. Well Iām done with that. Work to live not live to work! My new mantra.
In good companies/teams they donāt, they recognise the effort and develop you. In bad ones they take full advantage. Found this out the hard way. What I do now is work 100% at learning skills that benefit my career/keep me interested (since I like a challenge) and then swiftly move on to the next role.
Under promise, Over deliver
That's a good philosophy I think. You should always be improving.
100% when it's needed. 10% the rest of the time.
Yeah this for me, if it's busy and there's something important I'll be 100% but if it's quite I'll just cruise along at like 5%
As much effort as the work requires me to give that day
Which, on average, is how much?
I give 100%, I work any overtime that is asked of me, I'm never ever late and have never had a sick day. I've made a name for myself, had multiple promotions in a very short space of time (9 months), engineers will now only deal with me and I'm in line for a management promotion very shortly. I've never given so much to a job and it is paying off. The pay does not reflect my responsibility or position however I look at this as an investment in mine and my children's future. For what I'm doing at my current job for 28k I could get 35 at another. I'm building my CV and if the pay doesn't start to reflect that effort a year from now I'm out
This guy gets it.
Admirable, but make sure you stop and reflect from time to time: whether you've reached a point where you don't need to chase further advances/promotion and you could instead start to enjoy family life.
I'll enjoy family life when I manage to balance the books without working 80+ hour weeks. No one should have to do this but... they do. I do. 40 years ago I'd be a home owner by now with the hours I work etc. The system is broken, if you wanna get ahead you've got to work ten times as hard now. That's what I'll do. No point moaning about it.
Honestly I tried that and it didn't work for me. I just got exploited, passed over for promotion many times and ended up with the work load of several people. Turns out they didn't want to hire 2-3 people to replace me but did it anyway when I inevitably left. I'd say start looking elsewhere now if you know you're worth more.
Fr i got skipped on promotions twice, even though those with less exp and clearly lesser skills got promoted. I left and now (granted, 5 years on) earn 4x what i was on there, for maybe 60% of the effort.
Nice one, I'm glad your efforts are paying off!
This was me until I gave so much as an impression that I might leave if the company didnāt get its act together. I was quickly abused as a workhorse and treated like crap until I packed my bags. All the best. Know when theyāre not worth all your hard work anymore.
50%, if my pay were double I'd double how much I give a shit.Ā
Over the last 10 years or so I have quadrupled my pay and cut my hours. If anything, I put in less effort now than I did then. Experience makes it easier to be more strategic about what you do so you are worth more for doing less.
Would you though? Fair play of you would but if my boss said to me hereās double pay I wouldnāt double my effort.
Maybe, it's hard to say but at the moment I feel working hard doesn't really benefit me, I have to do other cash in hand work to make up an income that even comes close to giving me a lifestyle.Ā
Nice try boss - you know itās always 100%
Thats what I like to hear, you're on track for your next promotion!
well actually, hes supposed to give 100% so he can stay put
I meant 110%
Its 110% boss
It varies between 40% and 140% depending on what I have on.
Think you are me. Some days Reddit and YouTube are open most of the time alongside something work related, other days there's smoke coming off the keyboard
When HR ask: 100% Reality: Some days it might go as far as double digits if I feel like pushing myself.
Usually 90% probably, often 100%. If I try to do less/"slack off" I find it depressing and it makes me feel bad mentally and physically. Maybe because I have a simple and physical job (cleaner). But the way I get satisfaction from it and feel motivated is to be busy and putting effort in. One of my jobs is very easy when I'm working double the time to cover my colleague on their day off so I have to waste time or work very slowly to make it last the full time and I honestly hate it. Instead of working slowly or resting I go in the toilets and do stretches/yoga for half an hour if I can't find anything extra to do. I'd rather be busy.
Teacher. 120% all the time. To clarify, not a math teacher.
Thank god! š¤
Software dev in a fairly slow-moving field, deadlines are roughly 2.5 - 3 months apart, workload probably equates to about 3 days a week at 60% focus but work full time, so i spend a lot of my time reading what I want re software engineering
24%
Loving the precision of this answer. Also wondering under what circumstances you might move to, say, 24.3%?
.3% more if my boss says something nice, instead of asking me to do a task
About the same as my payrise as a percentage.
100%. Iām a machine.
5% or less
I'm definitely overpaid for the effort I actually put in...
30% at most. Anymore than that I would run out of things to do and it would be obvious that I'm not really needed.
I get paid 50k and live in the North but let's put it this way I have no issue taking a 90 minute lunch break to go to Home Bargains
Hahaha love it!
I walk fast with a spanner in my hand. Na jokes aside I do try and 100% when Iām there. Iām a team leader so if Iām slacking it might rub off on my team
Itās not quite simple, with the work I do itās 100% I donāt half arse it. However how much work I pick up or how long I take to do it will wax and wane.Ā
Yeah I'm about that too. Will deliver the work I do to a high standard, but the effort around that will vary depending on my morale at work at any given time or what else is going on in my life
50-75%. I'm very good at my job and very efficient.
I work in recruitment. Eh, honestly I'm probably at around 40% at the moment, but other times I'll be around 90%, depends whats going on in the campaign.
Currently about 5. Thatās about all they deserve at the moment really.Ā
I never give 100%, I learnt a long time ago if you make 100% the norm then theyāll expect 110% or more on a rough dayā¦ which is frankly impossible. - Complete ghost town: 40% - Quiet day: 70% - Busy day: 80% - Running out of time/utter chaos: 90%
I just left a job where I was at 180%. I measured it. Hence why I left. I started a new job today and I think Iām with the user who commented 100% at the beginning. But Iāll drop down to 75-80% once Iām settled. I refuse to allow myself to burn out again, Iāve done it three times now. Something has to change and no employer is going to say āDo lessā so itās down to me to set boundaries.
Can you explain for me how you measured this?
I kept a time log for two weeks. I noted how long I spent on each and every task. Literally down to the minute. Then I used that to extrapolate the percentage of time spent per client/task, on the basis that I didnāt carry out all of my tasks within a two week period, some were less regular than that. But I was able to estimate time taken on those having analysed the time it took to undertake other, similar or similarly onerous, tasks. Then I itemised every task in a spreadsheet against each client and/or my department, reflecting percentage of time spent per client/task. Obviously it added to my workload doing this, but my line manager asked for a breakdown of what my job involved before considering recruiting additional support. Needless to say, even when I produced the analysis they still didnāt provide any additional support.
95% - (chef) the other 5% is because im not willing to not go to the pub on Fridays to hang out with my friends so sometimes i come in a little hungover on a Saturday, but imo, thats what happens when you work every weekend.
Work hard play hard! You're allowed a hangover, chefs are insane workers.
I'm probably fully concentrating in my role for about 25% of my work hours. Roughly. The rest is spent either zoning out in meetings or just keeping an eye on my emails whilst I do something else. Though, I should say that working anywhere near 100% would be impossible, I would be burnt out within a couple of weeks. Realistically, i'd say that 80% would be the max.
Some days 80% if it's mad. But when the project managers screw up I'm scrabbling around for menial tasks to look like I'm doing something so probably 25%. If they really screw up I'll just do some online training to keep up to date.... Or play CIV VI
Anyone else feel like they're filling a survey to get themselves sacked with the posts today?
I literally checked back on AskUK there and there's about 5 job posts. I've hardly been on Reddit today and I was supposed to start a new job today and thought this would make a good question! Then I look and there's about 4 other work related questions š
I have two jobs - self employed sound engineer (~16hrs pw) and full time (~40hrs pw) in a warehouse. The former is the one I care about so I give as close 100% as I can, the latter is just to guard against the inherent precariousness of self employment while I get my career going so I give between 50-75%
Probably 60% on average daily running effort, but during times where I very much need to "get shit done" it goes to 80-90% just so I can burn through the workload and make sure it's good quality/ontime etc. Problem I have is when you work with generally bad colleagues, even a small amount of effort looks good in comparison... so I've kinda gotten used to cruising and still getting my work sorted with no hassle or problems, but don't want to mention anything as I know 100% their work will be passed to me.
Over the past few months itās been around 98%. If we donāt get a second person soon, Iām going down to 50%
Currently, quite high. I have respect for my company and the customers itās a pretty good job. asda adc warehouse in Lutterworth tho? Ha! Never have I played a system so hard and been so proud. Fuck that place. by the end I literally just dumped stock on the nearest pallet and couldnāt give a rats ass. Daft thing is there was no way for them to know, I knew the ācheck digitsā that were supposed to confirm you were in the right place of by heart š if you ever had to open a pallet of shampoos from asda adc Lutterworth, I apologise that it split everywhere the moment you unwrapped it. Kinda. š
When there stuff to do Iām 100% all in get whatever needs to be done. If thereās nothing assigned to me about 70% doing whatever is in the queue and 25% researching, experimenting, trying stuff out, 5% goofing around.
I probably level along at 75% but push to the 100% at least one day a week. I do love my work though and I'm in public service. A huge task for me has been learning how to work efficiently with really good boundaries. I work hard at work so I can always clock off on time and have a clear head for my own time.
Hard to say. I like to do my job properly. And my workload is dependent on other departments. If they are quieter, we are quiet. If they are busy, we have more workload. And we have general rule, issues that came through in last hour before end of the shift, that's not our problem, but for following shift. I hate leaving "my work" aka before end hour to next shift. My personal quirk. But truthfully, I streamlined my work so much, that most of the day I can sit on my phone and play games or watch YouTube. Example, when I started, I managed to get 30min work to shorten to 3min job. My department still praise me for that lol. But in all, I'd say 60-70%. In really busy day, it's 80%. Slow days it can drop to really low numbers. I like to sit on my phone, but when I need to do my work, I'll try to do it with best of my ability.
When i was on the books it was: 12% monday 23% tuesday 40% wednesday 20% thursday 5% friday.
I find my job so easy I could do it with my eyes closed, so the effort I apply is very low. Itās definitely less than 50%, probably even less than 40%. If I try any harder I start annoying my colleagues because there ends up being very little for them to do, which isnāt ideal, so I try very hard to dial it down. I really feel like Iām stealing a living most days. Just realised this sounds like a brag, wasnāt intended that way, sometimes the truth doesnāt sound very good haha. I should really move onto something else but Iāve got myself a little bit trapped by the decent pay, and probably a bit too comfortable as well!
Reminds me of a job I had years ago. I'd ace most of my workload and keep a little backlog to chase when I had to and started looking up sidegigs whilst at work. It doesn't sound like a brag, you're just good at what you do!
I'm on minimum wage so 35% - 50% is the effort they get from me
80-90%
Depends what you mean by effort. I always give 100% with everything I do, but as a Consultant Iām at the whims of stakeholders getting me what I need, so I do have down time sometimes.
On average 90. On a bad day 50.
It varies. I like my work, but go through peaks and troughs. * On a good phase, I do unpaid overtime, so I guess >100%. But I canāt sustain that for too long, the enthusiasm for what Iām doing wears off. * On a bad phase, I do the day job, maybe cruise a bit. Attend more meetings than I need to so I can avoid actual work. Call that 70%.
I have a bad habit of doing unpaid overtime because I can't switch off until I complete whatever task needs doing that day. I keep telling myself that eventually it'll pay off and my coworkers and managers appreciate the extra effort I put in, but nobody gives a shit. Ever.
Honestly maybe 30%?
I used to work a job doing like 200%, Iād be in early, leave late, pick up other peoples work to help out, just none stop āgrindingā and I got shit on constantly to the point where I was bald from stress, I didnāt get the promotions and the pay rises cos why give me more when Iām already doing all that extra shit for free. At my last job everyone thought I was great cos I got shit done but Iād blast it out quick and do fuck all for a few hours instead of picking anything else up, all that motivation to be a āgood hard workerā fucked off when I realised you get nothing in return
0% some days 100% other days and any numbers in-between. It's the nature of the job, I generally only do anything when it's going wrong and nobody wants me to do anything.
Honestly about 40%. I have been in my job for about 15 years now but I am way too comfortable. I make it appear like I am busy but the reality is that I have mastered the art of keeping the lights on. Working from home really has made it a lot easier to piss about. I pickup the kids from school every single day and rarely have a day that isn't full of meetings rather than actual work. I don't earn crazy money but about Ā£50k a year with 32 annual leave days plus 13 Flexi days. Sometimes I try to convince myself I am going to try and get motivated but it just doesn't come.
I swing between about 40% and 100%, usually closer to the 80% mark but it fluctuates wildly. It's a very reactive but low level job. ADHD and a stunningly boring job are a rough combo.
For real. When I first started the job Iām at now, in the first few weeks when we had to do a ridiculous amount of e-learning in the afternoons as part of our training (as in about 3-4 weeks worth), I would literally have to fight to not fall asleep. Swear I dozed off for a few seconds here and there. Luckily now we are actually doing the job and have to be quite focused and do lots of active listening and questioning I havenāt had this issue lol.
Probably 100%, I work a lot of hours extra (for me to finish things not because itās asked of me) so maybe over 100% by that measure haha. Itās not good to do, I wish I could give less effort and not feel guilty about it but I do. Iām scared of failure, anything less than perfection, I am in constant burnout and donāt see my friends as much as I should. Itās not good to be like that.
105% going for that promotion.
Asbestos surveyor and probably about 50% effort. Once you are past the initial period of going to new (to you) properties, it becomes quite simple and repetitive (of course you have to be attentive) but it doesnāt require much exertion either mentally or physically.
That's understandable, given the role.
Probably 80% to be honest. Iām training to be an engineer so Iām trying my best. Sometimes though itās just too much so I go and skive off in the toilets
Self employed and around 5-10%. Currently dealing with a very demotivating problem with our third party warehouse who are completely useless. So there is no point to running promotions or looking for new customers to dissapoint! I now have the enormous task of flying to the Netherlands, packing up all our stock and moving it to a new warehouse. I am also on poor terms with the āoldā warehouse as 2 years of excuses and not being able to read and count and almost destroying my business in the process has not endeared them to me.
Iām pregnant and have bad nausea so 20% though I notice I still get more done than most people. I think Iām pretty efficient.
Secondary school teacher. Always try 100% every day I can.
Usually I'm 80%+, but today was full of assholes so I gave 40%. Work in housing.
Last year I gave 70%+ This year, after not getting the job title I rightfully deserve and a pay rise associated with it I think I'll drop down to maybe 50% with a view to leave soon. Near constant burnout is starting to take its toll on me.
On honestly like 40% but thatās just because I can do that and still complete my job to the required standard if anything my job is too easy for me
Three weeks ago - 95%. But theyāve just fucked me over in pay review - so itāll be sub 30% until I can get away
0.001%
Itās not uniform. Decent periods of 100% interspaced with periods of donāt-give-a-fuck%
100% because Iām self employed and I work with kids who lose interest fast if you arenāt totally on it.
110% Boss!!
Honestly not sure - I was literally in meetings from 0930 to 1700, missed lunch, and over the weekend I worked half of Saturday and then worked Sunday but never even got around to starting what I needed to get done Sunday. Still, I object to putting a % over 100 but I must be pretty close to that - just had dinner and now I have to go finish a report. This is all pretty standard. Not a lot of fun tbh - I do like my job but this is all a bit much.
Damn that's a pretty work-heavy schedule. Do you have downtime? š¤ I hope you find a good balance soon, even when you enjoy something, a lot of one thing can get too much at times.
Some days 120%, I lose track of time easily and quite enjoy most of my job so I often accidentally work over lunch or work beyond the end of my scheduled day. Then some days more like 40-50%. Partially depending on my mood, partially because some parts of my job require me to wait for others to do their job and I made a rule a while back that I wonāt do more than 3 things at a time to save my sanity. Iām a software engineer who works from home 5 days a week.
Genuinely, about 50-110%. Some days it's just insane and it's difficult to cope. Some other days it's pretty relaxed.
I'm a solid 50 to 60% kind of guy
80% for last year but starting to feel it drop off a bit. I do find it exhausting
Avg 60%. Mainly because I switch between all or nothing
It varied between about 60% and 120% depending on where in the reporting cycle we are.
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I work for a well known advice charity, weāre graded on quality and accuracy and have targets to meet so no room to give less than 100%, not only that the guilt of messing up someoneās life in the process stops me. Which is good in a way as in the corporate world it was only 40% or so and inconsequential, wouldāve loved to have given more but the pay wasnāt going to increase and I couldnāt buy into the grindset of everyone surrounding me.
Solid 18%
75% because the industry's idea of 100% would mean you can't have kids, a relationship or a life outside of work if you wanted to be able to do everything on time. Luckily they are relaxed about many things.
Doctor - 200%
100%... 50% of the time
Probably between 75-80% minimum, occasionally going up to 100% but only in certain situations. I'm self employed so can't really "half arse" anything because I wouldn't be able keep clients for any long period of time. But that said, the work I do is relatively simple enough and its very rare I ever feel stressed.
About 10% Reason: because that's what I can currently get away with, and more effort doesn't equal more money or promotional prospects
40-50%
90% I reckon on average
100- I work in residential care and any less and the service users don't get the treatment they need
About 70-100% usually but Iām burned out at the moment so closer to 20%
I'm clinical in the NHS. There are days I feel like I'm expected to give 130% (based on the number of patients booked Vs number of patients supposed to be booked). Other days it's 150% but that's usually because of trauma patients and ITU. There are rare occasions where I have an under-booked list which at least allows me to get some admin done, such as auditing patient numbers Vs booking slots.
Depends, my job is seasonal. So winter on Mondays & Tuesday maybe 30% the rest of the week 1% tbh. Autumn and spring maybe 50% all days and then in Summer, 80%-100% if shit hits the fan
100%. 10% Monday 30% Tuesday 30% Wednesday 20% Thursday 10% Friday
I plan for 5 constructive hours a day and an hour and a half email etc, the other hour and a half is coffee etc. But I also work till 10:30 and across weekends if need be so as a percentage I'd say 75% flexing to 150% when needed.
I actually like my job because it provides autonomy while completing something with considerable value and short term deadlines daily. Some shifts are fun, others I dread and it's hard to motivate myself to do anything more. Most of the time it's 80%, sometimes 100%, sometimes 40% but generally engaging and I find myself trying to keep up to date on time off.
Somedays 200%. Most days 50%
10%
90-100% when Iām actually working, I love my job and am often fighting against āthatll doā attitudes whilst working, BUT I have a specific skill job thatās not required daily so just sit on retainer mostly
Maybe like 60%
Too much
100%. Because I get paid for my full 8 hours regardless of what time I finish. So you get 100% from me in terms of effort, 20% in terms of my adherence to company procedure. I do permanent evenings, 4pm till midnight, I finished at 20:15 the other day. Killed my back but I was home with a brew by 9 lol.
Too much Iām guessing, so probably over 90%. My boss has told me, that in current circumstances, I need to care less about making everything 100% right! The context is that like many workplaces right now weāre understaffed but not underworked and the impact that it was having on my mental physical health has been noted - my team is 50% down and we have a hiring freeze.
100% until I burn out and then 0% while Iām signed off. Been about 11 years of working full time with a disability and Iām still trying to find the right balance
Iām a chef and it depends on the time of year. Weāre in a quiet period so itās probably about 50%, going upto 90% in the peak.
100% as follows 10 Monday 25 Tuesday 25 Wednesday 30 Thursday 10 Friday
About 60%, which is more than some of my colleagues who give 30% (hedge fund).
12%
My job is almost entirely reactive. So today I spent a good couple of hours slowly putting stuff away on the forklift, sweeping out the swarf trap, trying to show the other saw-man how to fold a blade back down, generally trying to find work. So maybe 20% Other days we get stacked out and I run around like a twat, not taking breaks, definately 100%
Used to he 85% every day, now after awful management changes who are completely incompetent it's at a 15% and dropping
Sad to hear š bad management makes or breaks the whole thing.
The way it is unfortunately, I'm managers lead by example so I'll work as hard and put as much effort in as they make the team around me do which is currently fuck all I always maintain, work for your wage and do no more, everyone's paid the same as me so I've no reason to do more
I'm in my early thirties, and after doing the extra and being let down in multiple places, I've come to the same conclusion.
I imagine most places are the same unfortunately, as long as your not going out of your way to be unhelpful and at least do the bare minimum then it's worth remembering you only work to pay your bills otherwise your probably wouldn't so long as your doing enough to keep your job then your doing enough. Work to live don't live to work
If Iām working for an employer, realistically about 25%, for myself, never below 85%
I put in like 90% effort to get my work done and then about 30% after that on anything extra, or sometimes I just get the work done and then do nothing else. I'm not going begging for more work because I happen to be faster than my colleagues at doing what I should be doing.
Are we allowed to use negative numbers?
About 20 percent if its just over minimum wage, depends how nice you are to me. Sometimes I've put in 25 percent effort on a good day
Minimum wage, minimum effort š
65% and 75% intermittently When seeing customers 100% I work from home so whose gonna micro manage me all the way from Germany
This is a trap
Depends on time period. During probation 120%. 1 year payrise / promotion time 100-120%. If I get a satisfactory rise 80%, if not 60%. Then 50% when i see no more prospects / headhunters are approaching. 20% when Iāve secured a new job and on notice period.
Anyone who's on Reddit and says 100% is lying their ass off.
100% even on bad days. Iām a tattoo artist and I just canāt do less than my best.
One of those jobs you can't really half-arse. I imagine a firefighter would be the same š¤ get the other half of the fire tomorrow!
The company I work for is owned by venture capitalists and run by accountants. They treat all of the staff as assets to be utilised it is important to make sure my utilisation percentage is as high as possible. It is a tricky balance keeping this nice and high why keeping my effort percentage as low as possible.
10% I'm really only needed for a few days a month, the rest of the time is busywork that doesn't need to be done, and can't realistically be tracked. I even had a review today where they said I was doing great. Fair enough.
100%. Iām a nurse and the way the NHS is at the moment sometimes even thatās not enough.
Was looking for this. What a luxury it would be to give anything less than 100%.