Re: Hours of Labor per work day.

["Brierley, Sean" <Brierley -at- QUODATA -dot- COM>]

Hallo:

Pull a reverse-Scotty and settle for 5.5 hours per day. 6.5 or 7 seems high.
I would imagine that a PC crash, software snag, unexpected phone call,
email, memo, meetings, bathroom breaks, and daydreaming, or any such
combination could easily wreck your 6.5 or 7 hour estimate of productive
worktime. Reading your email and writing mine took a couple of minutes away
from my day (of course, I came in 90 minutes early). Also, this morning, a
failed attempt by Sysop to install some antivirus software on my PC burned
20 minutes or so.

As I said, 5.5 hours is my best guess and it leaves a little wiggle room.

Sean
sean -at- quodata -dot- com

>>>-----Original Message-----
>>>From: Michael Egan [mailto:Michael -dot- Egan -at- DACG -dot- COM]
>>>Sent: Wednesday, April 28, 1999 9:47 AM
>>>To: TECHWR-L -at- LISTSERV -dot- OKSTATE -dot- EDU
>>>Subject: Hours of Labor per work day.
>>>
>>>
>>>  At the company where I work, the planning project officer
>>>could calculate
>>>the number of hours a project would take.  The director
>>>wanted to find out
>>>the number of workdays required.
>>>
>>>  The obvious solution would be to divide by 8.  But is that
>>>realistic?  Are
>>>there any studies that suggest otherwise.  Or even an
>>>industry standard?
>>>
>>>   The planning officer added up typical meetings, required
>>>readings, etc.
>>>and came up with 6.5 to 7 hours of work per day.
>>>
>>>     Comments?
>>>
>>>     Michael P. Egan
>>>     Senior Consultant
>>>     DACG
>>>


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