MinuteDock’s Guide to Surviving an 80+ Hour Work Week
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Bryce Armstrong, Customer Success Manager, MinuteDock Bryce is dipping his toes into the cloud-based accounting ecosystem after recently partnering up with his brother Jared, founder of MinuteDock: time management software for professional services.
The team at MinuteDock offer advice for that most dreaded of circumstances, the double work week. Learn how to survive and thrive!
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he 80-hour working week is a thing dreaded by even the most dedicated of professionals. It is, after all, the equivalent of working two weeks within the space of one. While it certainly isn’t recommended as an ongoing, regular part of your work experience, a hard week of 80+ hours may allow you to catch up on your workload and keep the stress away from the rest of your month. It is important, when you decide to do something like this, to do it right – it would be all too easy to burnout and be unproductive for most of the time or to produce sub-par work. If there’s one thing you don’t want, it’s to have to backtrack later on and fix the mistakes you made while you were too tired to think straight.
7-day week would make that more like 11 or 12 hours per day. Those numbers are much more manageable on a day-to-day basis, but have the disadvantage of cutting into your weekend, so the choice will be down to personal preference.
and make sure you are getting enough during your week. Not only is this important for your health, but also the quality of your work. You need to have set sleeping hours and shouldn’t compromise those scheduled hours. Doing otherwise will have you quickly But is working 80+ falling out of sync “Your non-working hours in a week with your work time: in particular healthy? Working schedule. your sleep, is 80 hours a week important to keep for a short period, The importance good track of and or intermittently, of regular physical are make sure you may well aid you in activity on the during enough getting reducing work time health of the human your week.” stress and pressure body and mind is well affecting your mental documented. Keeping state by letting you get out in physically active during your week front of big projects or catch up will have a noticeable effect on quickly when you’re behind the both the quality and efficiency of ball. Having said that, it’s vitally your work. Don’t get caught in the important to make sure you are trap of telling yourself that you getting all the physical and mental don’t have time for it: you will see stimulus you need to keep healthy that your ability to work hard and First, you will want to give a lot while you work a heavy week – be productive because of your of consideration not just to the making sure you have enough exercise regime will more than hours you will work in the sleep to feel rested, make up for the time you spend week, but also to the are eating full and actually exercising. number of days you healthy meals, and “Taking appropriate will work. Working a are getting enough Taking appropriate time to time to unwind and traditional five-day physical exercise unwind and reset for your next reset for your next week will result in – these are all task is crucial to maintaining your task is crucial to you having 16-hour important factors to productivity. A rest period is not maintaining your workdays; something consider! only important for maintaining productivity.” you might find yourself your health but also for allowing struggling to accomplish. Ensure you have a healthy you to mentally adjust when A 6-day week comprising a total sleep schedule. Your non-working switching tasks in order to of 80 hours would be between time: in particular your sleep, is maximise your work output. 13 and 14 hours a day, while a important to keep good track of You’ll quickly feel like you’re going
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