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As far as number of hours worked, it doesn't appear to have changed much: https://clockify.me/working-hours
Down about 2% from 1979 to 2015, compared to being down around 10-20% in Europe, and 40% in Germany.
Don't want to come across as pedantic, but hours worked has gone down since the 80s. From the table, you can see that this is true throughout the developed world, and in some places drastically so. However, the decrease is smallest in the US (-2.1%), compared to say Canada (-7.3%).
Barely any fewer compared to the increase of productivty. We also work more hours in the US than most other leading nations. (More than crazy working Japan). See Germany in the charts below!
You are seriously all over the place.
You said Americans have more medical debt than ever before and now are trying to compare it to Europe instead of the past? It costs more to have kids today than it did in the past. You should check out the maternal mortality rates over time. You might see a correlation there. https://www.hrsa.gov/sites/default/files/ourstories/mchb75th/mchb75maternalmortality.pdf
> Ironically enough, a BIG problem in the workforce is companies offering bullshit hours like "34 hours part time" to avoid paying insurance costs. With all of the people working part time jobs who want to work full time, full time employees are working MORE hours.
If you clicked your link and read any of it you'd know your arguing against yourself. It says the number of hours hasn't since 2000. Nobody is working more, and part time workers have gone down. Though if we look at the bigger picture, we have never worked less. https://clockify.me/working-hours. Notice how these numbers are decreasing over time?
And finally, working conditions doesn't equal pay. There really isn't much more to say than than what I already have. I recognize you don't want to go get a better job because you think everyone else will copy you and it'll drive down your wages. I can't help you with that. I'm sorry we got taken off the gold standard and starting off shoring jobs. But quitting your retail job in protest isn't going to help you or anyone else.
Early medieval peasants did work less hours per year, but take a look at these stats by century.
I'd rather work an office job 1900 hours a year now than as a medieval serf 1620 hours a year. Yes, there's less hours total. But most of those hours are in the harvest months where you work 12+ hour days. Keep in mind many people couldn't do much during the winter months.
Start here to see that working hours have indeed gone down over the past 100 years or so.
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>Now imagine the cost of houses, they have gone exponential too, the cost of living have gone cubic and the cost of education of children have gone cubic too.
Keep in mind that as productivity has gone up the cost of many goods has gone down so that even though wages have not kept pace. Think 50 years ago no person could afford a super computer but now we all hold one in our hands.
That being said things like housing and education have gone up by crazy amounts and this is indicative of a market failure but it is not the fault of capitalism but rather a side effect of incredibly cheap money (monetary policy). If you took away cheap money, both education providers and house builders would have to build cheap housing or else not sell houses and go out of business.
You can try Clockify Autotracker. It's a desktop app the lets you track all the apps & websites you've opened during a set time. Clockify is mainly a time tracking tool so at the end of the day it lets you add time entries & create a time log that you can share with your employer.
If this is the only app in the world that works for you, then pay the 50 bucks.
But my guess is that if OP had enough users willing to pay that much money, he wouldn't spend time on reddit trying to drum up business.
The point is that OP is literally competing with open source software that is available for free and does exactly the same thing as his app. And with software that does more and is available for free.
A very basic economic analysis might lead someone to say that if there are a ton of other products out there that do something incredibly similar but for a fraction of the price, then maybe OP's ideas of how much users should be willing to pay for his product are a little bit far-fetched.
It appears that OP advertises himself as "an entrepreneurial product and engineering leader, with repeated success in building digital solutions for various international B2C and B2B markets," yet - despite the market he's competing in and despite the feedback he's clearly receiving here - OP seems to be completely incapable to comprehend why people criticize his pricing.
Intermittent fasting. Can't get post meal grogginess if you don't have one. I've been doing it so long I don't start to get hungry till well past 1 or 2. It seems like time management might be part of you problem so here's this time blocking software https://clockify.me that helped me a lot.
Whoa, okay, wow.
>Health indicators like height and dental health actually decreased in societies adopting agriculture.
Oof, there is a whole Essay I could write. However, I would kindly ask you if you have any reading material regarding that Thesis? Because it smacks a lot of "Everything was better in the past"/"More Natural things are automatically better"/Romantic Rejection of Modernity, but I would like to know more.
Look, I have a personal stake with that theory: I have a cleft lip and cleft palate, so my mum could not nurse me naturally when I was a newborn, and without modern medicine I would have died of starvation a few days (hours?) after I was born. Mother Nature is harsh like that, so I very much not proscribe to the "More Natural things are automatically better"-Thesis.
For point 1) I found this source as well, quite interesting: https://clockify.me/working-hours
For point 2) Okay.
For point 3) I agree, although with the caveat that population density is not the only factor when it comes to diseases.
For point 4) Yeah, this is highly ideologized. It is basically Rosseau vs "Burden of the White Man", and I reject both. I have yet to see good evidence. Arguments, I have heard a lot, but proper evidence remains unclear. Shrug
You also left out one question, though: Why did the population of agrarian societies explode vs non-agrarian Societies? And why did Agriculture spread wherever it went (and it was possible to do farming/herding)?
Also, I like Star Trek, so for me it's Fully Automated Queer Space Communism or Bust.
> wages are ruled in large part by the law of supply and demand; doubling the workforce should have in fact halved income on an individual level which obviously isn't a viable option without having widespread unrest, so instead wages stagnated.
If there were truly a fixed amount of output, doubling the workforce should have halved working hours; yet that did not happen.
We use Clockify right now for time tracking and export the reports at the end of the month for client billing. We bill a single monthly amount and say in our invoices that a full breakdown is available on request.
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I used to use Toggl, and IMO it's a better time tracker. The reason we switched is that the team size exceeded the free plan, but if you are on your own then Toggl might be a good bet.
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We have never screen recorded and it's never been an issue.
I use the online tool https://clockify.me/ which is free and simple to use.
I use it for most of my home side projects and sometimes i look at the statistics to see what my work is worth at some fantasy hourly rate :)
But i have to admit that im using it not religiously - i try it most of the time except for research or "play" tasks (like now playing with godot) and sometimes it simply gets forgotten.
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It keeps me motivated to work on my projects and is also a nice overview.
“Wages are stagnant.” That’s actually a myth. Wages have steadily increased over the years, along with work related benefits. People are working less hours every decade, which can lead to a perceived lack of wage growth. If you work a minimal amount with minimal skill/effort required, you should not be making enough to pay all expenses to live independently.
>"The British are among the worst idlers in the world. We work among the lowest hours, we retire early and our productivity is poor."
What on Earth was his point about retirement? The state pension age was 65 for men at the time he wrote that, which is fairly standard. Was that somehow a mark of workers' idleness (how?) or was he thinking about people taking early retirement having saved up enough during their working lives? That seems like the kind of toughness-and-self-reliance thing conservatives normally applaud.
I wonder what stats he was referring to for the other points too. Our productivity isn't poor and although we work fewer hours than some, we do work more hours than Germany and we are not far behind Japan, and I don't hear anyone calling them idlers.
Your only profit is the pay cut you get from the driver.
Your expenses are running servers running the matchmaker across the country (it'll take more than putting Bob's desktop in a closet to do that across several countries), paying your actual employees (and before you say that they aren't paying them enough - increasing pay by +1$/hour on average is 1800$ annually - and multiply that per employee) and legal expenses
It clearly doesn't skew it too much considering sources like this that measure full time employees onlyhttps://clockify.me/working-hours#:~:text=Working%20hours%20in%20US,more%20than%20other%20OECD%20countries.
2 vacation weeks and "most people working more than 40 hours a week" when compared to other first world countries is reasonable to you?
What do you believe sacrificing your free time gains you over other first world countries?
here might be a good alternative, the general trend still showed that US workers are working more hours compared to other countries.
This is great time blocking software that's free & will make it easy to visualize your time & how you are using it in addition to planning it's use better. It sounds like you're just procrastinating with your dick. Procrastination is very much about fear & anxiety, specifically you either expect to fail or succeed & your fear of failing (according to that expectation or in spite of it) leads you to delay because you can't fail in the moment if you refuse to act. Masturbation just happens to be the activity you have chosen to procrastinate with. Addressing your masturbation habit alone will only lead your underlying procrastination to manifest in new ways. Have you considered the fact that it's not actually necessary for you to concern yourself with your potential failure or success? In fact it only increases your anxiety at your own expense.
Don't compare to other GTAs when bringing it up. That sucks, but it isn't really relevant. Just really convince them that it is more than 20 hours worth of work. Time it using "clockify.me" for instance. The first week it's over you ask for ways to improve your efficiency. The second week, suggest ways to cut out time on your own (ie I will grade this question only for completion.)
If you're still over hours, give your prof one more chance and send them your actual hours, saying that is it no longer tenable - showing some professional anger seems ok now. Then go over their head if the response isn't satisfactory the next week.
Not long ago I spent a day hyperfocused on the LSAT thinking (momentarily) I might want to go to law school. I happen to enjoy logic games, but even so I struggled at times because it's not an everyday way of thinking.
What I learned on that day was there are just a handful of question patterns, and there are a lot of free resources (YouTube is good) that explain how to approach each problem type.
If I were serious about taking the LSAT (or a similar test), I would take it one question type at a time. Learn the best approach and then practice just that type of question until I'd mastered it. Then I'd move on to the next type. The types have a range of difficulty as well, so I'd start with the simplest one and build from there.
I'm not sure what memory type questions would be involved in your test, but you could learn about different memorization techniques to build your skills.
I don't know if any of this is helpful, but I wish you luck!
try out a free account on Clockify Set up the fields you need e.g. different projects for normal vs call or whatever. Then track your time and use the reports feature to dump it out to excel when you need it.
Hi, when it comes to clockify, you can actually set the billable rates on individual level, per each project. Billable rates setup tree is actually quite deep. If you charge different rates for different team members, you can set that on a project level. Just to to projects>click on a project to edit it > team tab gives you that ability. Also, Clockify has native iOS app. Web version is not responsive on a mobile device. More details here https://clockify.me/apps
Hopefully this was helpful.
Median work hours have fallen over time, what are you talking about?
https://clockify.me/working-hours
If you assume women "didn't work" and hours were zero, then yeah I suppose you could say work hours have gone up since women began working in professional roles, but that's just dishonesty, not an actual issue. Women have always worked, whether professional or domestic.
This is false. Genetically speaking, there are people who are "wired" to be awake at night. Maybe it's not good FOR YOU, but I and the other night shift people I work with are just fine. in fact, I'd argue that the only time sleep deprivation is ever an issue for me is when I work mornings. Stop trying to push this shit on other people when you don't even know what you're talking about. Sources: https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.newsweek.com/night-owls-work-mornings-brains-wired-differently-science-1332931%3famp=1 https://clockify.me/blog/managing-time/more-productive-at-night/
If you’re looking for a way to manage your business/customers then a CRM tool will help. There are many free ones out there, this one is free for up to 12 users:
https://www.bitrix24.com/tools/crm/
If you’re looking to manage employee time there are free ones as well, like this:
Je suis à salaire fixe aussi depuis mes débuts, ça toujours été donnant/donnant. Actuellement notre équipe utilise Clockify pour suivre notre temps.
Je suis aussi sur appel sans êtres payé, c'est la partie qui me dérange le plus, même si on a pas beaucoup d'appel. Mais encore là, ça dépend du superviseur. Le mien, avec Clockify, est capable de voir si j'ai eu des appels et souvent quand j'en ai eu 2-3 dans la semaine, il va m'appeler pour s'assurer que je prends off vendredi pm ou quelque chose du genre.
Do you use the Notion integration? How does that work?
Right now, I really like how time tracking is built into my task management, and all that rolls up to invoices and clients. I just went to my client database and made a rollup property that shows me total revenue for each client -- I like having that ability to do stuff like that.
If switching to clockify.me meant losing that kind of functionality, I wouldn't want to do it.
I use crater for my invoicing, which I highly recommend.
For time tracking I ended up using clockify (it's not selfhosted but it's by far the best one I've seen) and running a script (it's basic but I can share it if you're interested) to output it every minute into a Google sheet that so I can assign shifts to different invoices. I then create an invoice using the totals in the Google sheet. I wish it was an all in one solution but it's not too bad
I highly recommend Clockify. I used it as a consultancy I worked at to track time on client projects. Later, working as an independent consultant, I decided to use it as well, and discovered more of its features.
The way you set it up allows you to track different clients, projects, and tasks. Then, view & download a PDF report based on whatever timeframe you like-- such as by day, week, two week, month, or totally custom timeframe etc. Plus it's free for most of the features. I don't recall if I ever paid for it, but I think the price for a basic subscription is about $5/month or something. But I might not have even done that b/c it's useful enough w/o paying.
Check out this intro video to get a sense of it:
https://clockify.me/help/getting-started/introduction-to-clockify
While this could be done in Notion, there re far easier tools and ways to do time tracking and accounting. For example, https://clockify.me/ lets you specify projects and who can log time. Each person can have their own rates. And people can log their own time, else you can.
I’m Notion certified, and curious what drives you to chose Notion for this problem?
First of all, I'm American, so when I tell you this, I do so as an authority. Americans are some of the hardest worked, least paid people in the developed world with very little time off. What's worse is that we do this with little to no social safety nets in place, barely a roof over a heads, and frequently living on the edge of disaster.
Your statement is ignorant and demonstrably false. In short, don't make claims you can't back up.
That snippet you posted says they worked 39.1 compared to 37.
this is good visualization from your link
Heres my contribution to the antiwork discussion:
Americans on average work more than other OECD countries
https://clockify.me/working-hours
>On average, a full-time employee in the European Union works 37.1 hours per week (main job). In 2019, the longest working hours are reported in Romania (40.5 hours per week) and Bulgaria (40.4 hours per week). The statistics also show that in Belgium, the number of working hours for employees was 39.1 hours per week, while it was 52.8 for self-employed.
>On average, a full-time employee in the United Stats works 1,801 hours per year, or 37.5 hours per week, which is more than other OECD countries.
>For example, Europeans work up to 19 percent fewer hours annually compared to those working in the US. For Americans that's 258 hours extra per year, or about an hour per working day.
Devant justifier de mes tâches au quart d'heure (fichu client) et devant justifier auprès de ma boite le même nombre d'heures par jour, j'utilise pas mal Clockify. C'est plutôt pratique, une appli Windows, un site web sur lesquels on peut démarrer des timers pour les tâches qu'on réalise, avec possibilité d'ajuster les horaires de début/fin si nécessaire et génération de rapport en fin de semaine.
Par contre ça nécessite d'avoir l'ordi allumé, et de démarrer/terminer manuellement le chrono... Ça pourrait toutefois peut-être t'intéresser.
Seems like a good option, not open source, but at least it has an API and there's already a wrapper in NPM
I also found timetagger which seems nice, but the free option is for self-hosting and handling yourself the authentication.
1.1 A one-two punch of widening income inequality, outpaced cost increases on essentials like medical, education, and food, and market speculation on essentials like housing and gas making a lot of places unaffordable without lifestyle adjustment
1.2 a lot of people have had to relocate or delay the College->House->Kids pathway because of financial restrictions
2.0 a lot of financial strain and death from Covid and stress from Covid lockdowns
3.1 the Republican party from national to local level not governing responsibly/blocking government function during these crises
3.2 ...and the republican news media ecosystem churning out an endless supply of exaggerations, falsehoods, and conspiracies that increased the sense of alarm and fear.
3.3 All that convincing a not-insignificant minority of the population there will be actual biblical rapture or open guerilla conflict between liberals/minorities and conservatives/militias/domestic terrorists in the near future.
I used Clockify. All you need to do is start a timer when you begin working and then stop it when you're done. You can also categorize tasks into different projects.
Here's the link:
Bruh why do you keep saying “people” when your clearly just referring to exceptionally wealthy western countries. Also your points don’t even make sense if you would do basic research we on average worked more during the 70s then we do right now.
https://clockify.me/working-hours
https://ourworldindata.org/working-hours Just because something is bad doesn’t mean it’s way worse then the past your clearly living in a bubble
yea... This is just one google search: https://clockify.me/assets/images/working-hours/world-annual-work-hours-history.png
I think we can agree that it is 99,99% due to the internet. maybe you shuold edit your comment
Whatever amount of time you spend, I highly recommend you clock and chart it. I've been using clockify.me for it, and it's really put my workflow and pace into perspective. Very helpful information, to be sure!
As for me, I usually squeeze like 25-35 hours a week in, though it's pretty variable depending on other aspects of my life getting busier or calming down.
Replying to top spot just to provide the explanation of why it's illegal
https://clockify.me/blog/business/time-rounding/#Everything_you_should_know_about_time_rounding
Companies can usually round to the nearest 5, 10, or 15 minute mark to account for randomness in the day like an odd clocking or for small breaks or insignificant tasks, the supreme courts has ruled that as long it is applied fairly and understood by both parties and does not exist with the intent to deprive an employee of wages, a rounding system is perfectly fine.
The issue above is that it only serves to round down, it will never round up which means the intent is implied not to simply the worksheet but to rob employees of hours. And they are rounding far more than the closest 15 minute mark which is the furthest that the law allows.
Some states might have stricter laws than what's on the federal books, so depending on where he lives this might be even more illegal. OP needs to send this to the local labor board in a hurry.
>Vives completamente num mundo à parte. Inferir que as leis têm em conta o lado do trabalhador a um nível sequer próximo do peso dos empregadores é incrível.
A democracia então não funciona ou os trabalhadores votam contra os seus próprios interesses.
>É também incrível que aches que as 40 horas são perfeitamente adequadas quando somos o único país da Europa que o faz
>sendo que os mais evoluídos já estão mais próximos das 30 do que das 35
E não há nada de errado com isso. Se os suecos decidem trocar trabalho por lazer, não tem problema. Para além do mais, a média de 30horas semanais não é decretada por lei, é uma escolha dos suecos.
>É também não ter em conta que a jornada de 8 horas foi criada para um tempo em que a mulher ficava em casa, com tudo o que isso acarreta.
A jornada de 8 horas não foi "criada".
>É óbvio que, no mundo de hoje, não faz sentido, nem há necessidade de trabalhar 8 horas por dia.
Não fazer sentido ou não haver necessidade é uma escolha individual de cada um. Ninguém tem necessidade de trabalhar além do mínimo para suster a sobrevivencia mas a vida é mais que isso e as pessoas escolhem trabalhar mais para vivenciarem outras coisas no período de lazer.
Ideally if they want reports they will provide you with a tool.
I work for a big 4 firm and we track in .1 of an hour increments (so 6min blocks) (accounting and client billing holdover)
I used to try to use a timer, but the issue with multitasking- how do you account for the 10 min you were emailing and working on a client issue. Was that 5 and 5 or 10 and 10.
Now I block my calendar for things like meetings and single task as much as possible outside of things with defined times.
I would ask: what categories do they want you to code time to, what tool do they want you to use, how granular do they want you to be, etc.
Something like this would probably work depending on how your firm feels about cloud apps
To those of you who describe working a 40-/60-/70-hour work week... wtf.
Even for neurotypicals, the 5-day, 38-hour work week is just wrong imho. It is a relic from the industrial era. Many European countries consider ~30-hour weeks to be full time, and their GDP is actaully better for it because people aren't living in a constant state of burn-out.
I feel very strongly about this. Y'all who work 40+ hours, stop it. pls.
Great. But I believe that overall, on average, people in USA more often are working longer hours than in my country.
I don't have stats for my country, but let's compare to germany: https://clockify.me/working-hours
Average 1757 working hours a year, compared to 1354 in germany.
The spike is just the very tip of the peak. Either way, the real wages are at an all-time high.
The productivity thing is irrelevant to the false claim that the wages are stagnant. Secondly, the productivity-pay gap is also a myth... productivity increases are largely the result of automation. The workers, as shown in my stat about weekly work hours, are working less than ever before.
But you already knew this so why are you being disingenuous? And why try to ignore facts that contradict your worldview?
If you can, try sitting them down with a normal person's day written out (in hour time blocks or smaller, like this - https://clockify.me/blog/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/15-minute-min-600x424.png) and then show them how that is different from yours and get yours on the fridge or your door. Maybe if they can internalize that for you 11am = their 2am they'll see the issue.
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I don't know if this will work - I worked rotating shifts (including earlies, lates and nights from home) and had housemates who never understood that I might be up during the night (including them throwing a fit that I kept leaving the kitchen light on, until they wrote a passive aggressive note while they were getting ready to leave early for a flight, only to find me half an hour later having lunch at 4am on the sofa when they came back down with suitcases, and only then would they understand that I had it on because I was taking my hourly screen breaks in that kitchen and trying not to trip over shit on the way to the bathroom while chugging coffee). They still never understood that I may not want them to host movie night... But maybe since your shifts are constant they can be easier to explain?
Ehh, not really. https://clockify.me/working-hours
Of course, there are a lot of people of working age who work very little, they're likely skewing the numbers a lot. I work about 50 hrs/week and that's about average in my line of work, but I have friends who will work 60+ on occasion for overtime dollars, but that's not too common for too long.
> Still not close to American work ethic though, I've yet to see anyone close to me do >80h/week
Doing >80h/week is not normal even in America. They work on average 37.5 hours a week, compared to 32.7 hours in Germany.
So while they work more, it's not the 80 hours a week you frequently read about.
>Class mobility and quality of life have literally never been better.
Quality of life yes, class mobility no. Anti-work is mostly US based movement and socioeconomic mobility declined sharply in the US since 1980. Also, socioeconomic mobility in US is worse compared to most first world countries.
>People work less hours
Yes, but this drop is not significant in US when compared to other countries and have pretty much stagnated since 80s. Hell, average weekly hours of US are still above OECD average.
>than a medieval king
Why a frame of reference should be 1000 years ago? It does not make sense as every comparison would be irrelevent due to major changes.
Points of comparison are generations before - your parents, grandparents etc.
>So the fact that people can complain about not affording a house on a regular salary baffles me.
They were able to do so not that much long ago.
>People don’t deserve a house just because they are able to do what society deems as a basic task.
So what is the point of those jobs if they cannot provide what can be considered basics, especially when there are still people who lived in generations in which that was possible?
> Life is easier in the modern world period and with the internet opportunities to better yourself have never been more plentiful.
If you compare to medieval times, sure. If you compare to recent history - not really.
asta poti sa vezi pe orele muncite pe tara.
https://clockify.me/working-hours
am gasit asta, regula este cu cat e tara mai dezvoltata cu atat creste media orelor lucrate. Iar la Franta e la 37 cred. Sigur iau in calcul si pe cei part time. Iar ca norma de lucru conteaza domeniul.
Decided to do a little digging specifically into laws regarding clock rounding because I know next to nothing, and found this resource
The average full time employee in the US works 37.5 hours a week.
The average CEO works 62.5 hours per week.
People say they don't do anything, because they don't understand what the job entails.
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I am literally just asking for examples, since I try to follow these types of things and have not heard of anything that fits the description of OP. But sure, throw "bad faith argument" in there to make it seem like I am being negative for asking for a source after an anecdotal argument from the OP.
All your other arguments are again anecdotal, show me the studies that have shown increased productivity over long periods of time. I have never heard large wide-scale studies, just small experiments.
I too want to work towards working less, but I understand we can't change the world overnight, and things take time. And I do not think working 38-40 hours a week of white collar labor is a lot/too much. I just want less ;).
Saying working more than you are paid is the same as working for free with a negative connotation around it is incredibly simplistic. What if I enjoy my job? What if I want to invest time in my career? What if I choose to work extra hours while my employer does not require it?
And finally, Belgium is right on the average on working hours in EU and significantly below in OECD, your connection of our "horrible work conditions" to our suicide rates is pure populism.
It's not nearly as bad as it used to be (in the 80s). It's actually second to the USA now:
https://www.ilo.org/global/about-the-ilo/newsroom/news/WCMS_071326/lang--en/index.htm
I am a software developer. And I am seeking a software developer (potentially). Where's what I'm thinking I'll do to determine equity.
Let's say I have a product, and I've already worked 600 hours on it. And I'll clock my hours using Clockify.me (great tool! avail. on computer, browser extension, and smartphone). Well, since I have 800 hours there, I can tell a cofounder:
- "When you hit 200 hours, well compare our hours again. Likely I'll be at 800 by that time, and you'll be at 200. So, that's 80% me, 20% you.
- But, I'm not giving you 20% equity. I'll give you a little less, and here's why: Consider that:
- A. I've put money into the business,
- B. I've contributed to Software Ideation and Marketing ideation, both of which I have executed on,
- C. I've developed business relationships with potential first customers (they're interested and claim they would subscribe to the service once it is live and decently useable, such as a beta or alpha version)
- D. I've established relationships with funding source.
- Therefore, I am willing to offer you somewhere between 5% and 10% based on your performance over the next year. Here are the milestones for 6, 7, 8, 9, and 10% equity. And, you have the potential to earn more as well, in the future"
So, that's what I plan to present to a potential partner.
That said, these types of deals, to my knowledge, are completely open and free-form-- it's a financial deal. You can both define and choose the terms you want, and present the terms to each other to see if you can both find them agreeable.
I saw someone else commented about quantifying how much you work on specific parts of your job. While managing a small project with multiple team members I discovered https://clockify.me which was quite nice to keep track of tasks using tags and more, it can then generate reports etc and I suppose it may be something useful to get a good overview of your progress on specific domains, even if you use it just for you and no other team member. No guarantee that these kind of apps would work for you tho so I suppose it's best to try (this or any other similar platform) and see if it's useful or not.
Something else I think of (disclaimer: this is just my two cents and I would be really happy to be contradicted about this) is don't over focus on project management techniques, or if you do, make sure they really are as useful as they seem. I found that some stuff that looked good on paper (some daily meetings stuff etc...) actually lost team members time and was just an easy way for us as a whole to be reassured that everyone was motivated etc... when really other more important issues existed and were hidden by all the noise from these methodologies. Again this was my very limited experience on a super small scale project, but if I was to do the same kind of project again with the same individuals this is clearly something I would have approached differently, I'm not saying I would have abandoned it entirely or anything, but just that I would have been much more exigent on their effectiveness.
- Wages have stagnated for decades https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2018/08/07/for-most-us-workers-real-wages-have-barely-budged-for-decades/%3famp=1
- Don’t believe we work more hours? https://www.ilo.org/global/about-the-ilo/newsroom/news/WCMS_071326/lang--en/index.htm
- The average worker over 80 years ago was working 40+ hours. In the last decade we’ve crept up back to 40+ hours, after it was starting to lower during the 50, 60’s, and 70’s until Reagan, and then came the deregulation and crushing of unionization. And let’s not forget we work more than any other first world country. https://clockify.me/working-hours
Countries like the US and Italy have significantly higher working hours than Japan.
https://clockify.me/working-hours
I'm Japanese and can confirm that working hours here are short compared to a lot of countries.
Except every other developed country works less hours then we do https://clockify.me/working-hours. Yet here we are stuck working 40hr work weeks slaving away for nothing while our wages remain stagnant as well.
> political divide, but that's the case in most countries
There's political divide, and then there's political divide like what it has been like in the US for the past 5 years. In which developed countries do we have citizens storming the capitol building because they're instigated by a top level official?
> has a workaholic culture
Are you speaking from personal experience, or are you just repeating what you've read about online? Because my wife has firsthand connections in Japan and many have said that the work-life balance has improved significantly over the past twenty years; with the exception of smaller Japanese companies owned by older people, long work hours is no longer the norm.
Don't even take my words for it, just look up the latest data yourself, because by average Americans actually work longer hours than Japanese.
And you want to talk about overworking: I'm a technologist and I used to work in the financial sector earlier in the last decade, and I routinely worked 50-60 hours. I wasn't just burnt out, I was past the point of burnt out that by the time I quit, I took a 6 month break to live on my savings and just take care of my mental health.
>Con ese argumento india tiene mucho tiempo siendo muy rico
La India ni si quiera aparece en esa lista que te puse, y eso que tienen 10 veces más población que nosotros.
>jornadas de 10 horas 6 días a la semana no son excesivas si pretenden que el 40% de la población salga de la pobreza.
Estás ignorando factores para llegar a esa conclusión. Lo que tenemos que hacer es aumentar nuestra producción y hacer más equitativa la repartición de recursos. Trabajar más horas no es la única manera de lograrlo, y aún así no siempre funciona como se puede observar en la India (checa la primer gráfica que aparece). En ese mismo link se menciona que actualmente en la CDMX las horas de trabajo promedio anuales son 2622, lo cuál es más que el punto más alto de Alemania en la gráfica.
Además vivimos en un mundo más conectado y con más tecnología que el de ese entonces, y nosotros no estamos todos destruidos por una guerra mundial, ni somos odiadios por los otros paises ni tenemos que pagar reparaciones por tratar de conquistar a todo el mundo.
Nuestros problemas no son la baja cantidad de horas trabajadas, las cuales ya son de las más altas en todo el mundo; son la desigualdad y la corrupción.
Si incrementas tu capacidad de producción solo vas a lograr financiar el año sabático que se van a tomar los hijos de tu jefe en Europa, o el contrato que el alcalde de tu municipio le va a regalar a su compadre para que construya una carretera tardándose el doble y cobrando el triple de lo que debería.
Japan has nationally mandated maternity leave, paternity leave, far more holidays and cultural events, and also have stricter regulations on overtime and over work. Japan is on a relative decline and US surpassed Japan in no of hours worked few years ago.
https://clockify.me/assets/images/working-hours/average-hours-trend-2.png
1) the short answer is that it has. Total compensation has increased and average hours worked has decreased.
https://clockify.me/assets/images/working-hours/world-annual-work-hours-history.png
Of course I'm talking about typical work weeks, not annual average.
This isn't the link I'm quoting from memory, but it says 52.7 (tabulated in the 03-04 school year) and was the quickest I could find as its nearly midnight:
https://nces.ed.gov/surveys/sass/tables/sass_2004_26.asp
On an annual basis teachers work an average of 2,180 hours (42 hours per week). By comparison the average employed American works 1,757 hours per year.
https://clockify.me/working-hours
A full time worker working 8 hour days, taking 2 weeks off per year, and no other breaks or time off would work 2,000 per year.
There's lot of website like https://clockify.me/ that can help you keep track of your time and be able to more accurately bill your clients. I use it for contracts where I'm kept on a retainer, but sometimes for projects that are short and go hourly so I can show my clients exactly how much time was needed.
Meanwhile all research points to total work hours getting less and less over the last few centuries, but don't let facts get in the way of you sticking it to "them" by renouncing the capitalism, whatever the hell is meant by that
Sadly there are already people saying that working 80+ hours per week is normal and expected and giving "tips" on how to "organize":
https://getsling.com/blog/9-80-work-schedule/
https://clockify.me/blog/productivity/how-to-manage-efficiently-working-80-hours-week/
Please note that I don't link those article to encourage it, but to illustrate how they are trying to impose it as a new normal.
People fought for the 40 hours work week, that they are trying to move the goalpost to twice or even thrice that show how under capitalism every privilege gained by the workers is under constant attack by the capitalists
1987 (average worker, US): 1,949 hours/year
1988 (manufacturing workers, UK): 1,856 hours/year
The statistics I linked in the post you replied to, that you didn't read. Also, I live in Germany, so the hours are considerably less.
Another link for broader, more current statistics
"On average, a full-time employee in the United Stats works 1,801 hours per year, or 37.5 hours per week, which is more than other OECD countries."
Here’s a source for average hours worked over time. There’s also the difference between using a mining drill vs pickaxe. One is far more productive than the other, and also means far less work from the operator.
https://clockify.me/working-hours
Those that do not do their fair share would be anyone who has taken in more in government services than they have given back. Meaning, anyone who takes more than they gives. Though, disabled people obviously do not fall into this category.
I use the free tier of Clockify; lets you set up and track hours for multiple projects. I still use separate Trello boards for project planning. Clockify is just for tracking the hours I use to bill.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_suicide_rate https://clockify.me/working-hours
It's not that they don't have problems, it's that their problems aren't unique or unusually severe compared to other developed nations.
https://clockify.me/working-hours
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List\_of\_countries\_by\_average\_annual\_labor\_hours
Most data actually points out that USA has on average higher work hours than Japan. Especially in recent years with the growing income inequality in the country and rising property prices and expenses that forces a lot of people here to work longer hours to keep up.
You could use a spreadsheet. Each and every spreadsheet engine has free templates for what your friend wants to do.
There is even clockify documentation on this https://clockify.me/spreadsheet-time-tracking
The one that I can be of most help with is a time tracker. TimeNavi- the company I work for - is a time tracker for Google Calendar, it tracks what your calendar events are (i.e. how much time you spend on a certain colour task in the last year) and you can export that info to Google Sheets.
My advice on the other front is an app called clockify.me. It doesn't quite do what you're asking about movable time blocks that you can't overlap but it is an upgrade of Google Calendar for time blocking and has hundreds of extra features, most of which are free. I like it as an app even if it is a competitor to the company I work for!
https://clockify.me/working-hours
In addition to, on average one less hour per day, most countries in the EU have laws establishing minimum vacation time ranging from 20-30 days. As far as I know, no such laws in the U.S. REQUIRE companies to compensate for time off.
An example of how shitty U.S. labor laws are. I work in a commission based industry and my company can schedule me any amount of hours a week, 55+ with no added compensation for anything after 40 hours.
Standard of living source (I know its wikipedia but there is a TON of data on that page and in its sources)
edit: I will also concede, as many of these sources say, that America is not a world leader in any of these metrics, I am merely pointing out that it is not getting worse as many people on reddit like to claim.
No worries:)
Lemme try to understand further what you meant by graphical duration. Is this something like a task timer? Or a gantt chart?
I tried Toggl! & Clockify! for 30 days. Both are the same. Toggl is a little bit pretty but both are exact copies of themselves. In the end I chose Clockify, because its paid plan is cheaper than Toggl, if a need ever comes. And there is a bug/missing UX in Toggle, which I found very crucial and also reported to Toggl team. They said they will work on it, but who knows when. The feature because of which I dropped toggle is - When I have to repeat a task which I did previously (say a repetitive task which is weekly or monthly) and I would just use auto complete task add feature, toggl is not able to import the associated tags and billable status and I had to do it manually. While Clockify does that. I guess that's one feature they missed copying.
p.s. I am not sure who copied who. But they are exactly the same.
I just love it.
We started using it at work and I integrated it into my own projects as well.
I had a very wrong perspective of time per task before that!
Put simply, laws. There is case law precedent in the EU which means all EU employers (including the UK as this came into place prior to Brexit) must accurately keep track of their employees working hours in order to comply with the Working Time Directive. Its a similar situation in the US under FLSA rules too, however some professions are exempt. Link below might be useful for further reading:
> Working hours on average have increased in nearly every other industry outside of the white-collar information sector.
Except that the number of hours worked has been dropping for the past few decades. It was over 2000 hours per year in the 50s and has dropped to the high 1700s hours per year that we have now.
>just to clarify, my only point here is that most of the American workforce is not in a white-collar computer-based job.
Yes it is:
> For instance, a recent study by Edward Wolff estimates that 15 percent of the workforce in 2000 were knowledge workers (producing new knowledge), 44 percent were data workers, 14 percent were service workers, and 24 percent were goods producers
Most jobs are white collar jobs in an office. The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics said that 55.3% of jobs were white collar. (See table 1)
>I'm not saying everyone's working 60 hour weeks, either, but most people are working more than 40 hours on average.
You're own link says that with the exception of Utilities workers and "Mining and logging" workers. Every category works less then 41 hours a week. Many work less then 40 and the total average of all workers is under 35 hours a week.
Well first off it just makes sense that the UK isn't the Netherlands, not Hungary, not Greece, not Norway.
Both in hours worked and in income. I don't think you need a source to know that the average salary in Norway is much higher than that of many other countries, and that Hungary and Greece are on the lower ends. But what about hours worked?
Hours worked on average do seem lower in Europe on average than in the USA, at least according to these sources. It doesn't feel quite right to take Germany as a single indicator of working hours and income in Europe, though it's definitely not in a bad spot.
https://ourworldindata.org/working-hours
https://clockify.me/working-hours
https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/average-work-week-by-country
https://www.instarem.com/blog/are-you-working-more-than-you-should/
https://clockify.me/working-hours
Americas work almost twice as many hours as Japanese
Dude, just shut up.
Netherlands has a lower unemployment rate.
Netherlands has a lower unemployment rate.
Netherlands works around 400 hours less annually, with only just lower annual income
Seriously, just shut up.
Average work week has been declining over time, 40 hours is historically pretty low. And the fact you blame ' rich old white men' shows how hilariously ignorant you are.
Take a look at the statistics:
Yes, did help indeed, thank you.
By seeing what others use I can see if I'm on the right track or just doing stupid things.
I will maintain my structure for some more time and see how it works. Maybe only moving my "Calendar" heading to a single file, since it doesn't fit into a task/todo/project "workflow". It only stores some important dates (some of them, recurring year by year) which can later on, be influential to a specific project (but never the other way around)
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>I don't know what is timeboxing.
https://clockify.me/timeboxing
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I do have already some old capture templates, which are now outdated. Will update them according to this changes.
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Thank you, best regards
Clockify has a new screenshot feature, though it is only applicable on Enterprise plan. You need the Clockify app for this feature, but if you're using it on the browser I don't think it will work.
Clockify has a VS Code extension that connects to my account and allows me to select the project, feature, rate, and a ton of other options. It's also 100% free, although there might be paid options but I've never came across them.
I honestly don't know what it would take to get me to switch, but I'm interested in hearing how you would compete.
I feel the need to support this internet person and say that 60 hour weeks are quite unusual in most nations.
The OECD countries are between 29 to 47.5 work weeks. The median is ca 38.
Not in my nation.
In 2006 it was 33.4 hours according to this.
https://www.eurofound.europa.eu/publications/report/2009/working-time-in-the-european-union-norway#
In reality it is 37.5 hours per work-week. The above 33.4 counts vacation time as weeks. Overtime happens, but is legally limited both when it can demanded and how much can be demanded per individual, and the laws are overwhelmingly upheld.
Netherlands has the lowest work time in the OECD nations, the average work week there is 29 hours. The list is here: https://clockify.me/working-hours
https://clockify.me/working-hours The US ranked 19th in the world for average number of hours worked per week at 38.59. China is at 46 hours/week. The number of hours worked per week in the US and Western Europe has decreased since the 1980’s. So where exactly do you get your 12 hour days and 7 days a week idea? Reddit?
My advice would be to avoid Colombia if you want any kind of job security, work and life balance or career development, you will find none of those things here and even if you find manage to find a work it might as well not be in your area and you will have to work long hours after all we are the country with the highest number of working hours in a week acording to this.
In addition to the aforementioned things you might as well end up at the end of your working life with little to no pension and unable to sustain yourself for the years to come due to weak worker rights.
Personally I like to believe most young people are fleeing the country due to the complex and unavoidable situation that the country is suffering and will suffer in the years to come.
As far as task management, the most helpful thing I learned in my Organization class was The Eisenhower Matrix method. https://clockify.me/blog/productivity/eisenhower-matrix/
When working towards a goal, try to figure what steps you need to take to complete the goal. Keep breaking those steps down until they are easy and clear. It's hard to get more specific without knowing your goal.
As long as they can actually be classified as freelance, you’ll need to have them fill out a W-9 and depending how they fill it out, may need to issue them a 1099 at the end of the year if total payments in the tax year exceed the thresh-hold. This link explains pretty well.
https://clockify.me/blog/business/pay-contractors-freelancers/
The stats I linked was US time. Here is another https://clockify.me/working-hours
It doesn't matter what source I chose., everything shows much lower amount than what he streams. And that still isn't all work he does.
Again. When in the past 4 years did he take a burnout break? are you making stuff up?
There is an app called Clockify that you can use to track your tasks. I used it and a physical device called Timeular to keep track of all my project time because I had to record time to the half hour increments. This helped a lot on seeing where I was wasting some time and losing a lot of time with some clients.
The nice part is that it breaks down all your various "tasks" for easy export. Another thing to look at if you have O365 is their Insights module because it can give some interesting retrospective on your previous data in Outlook.