Ideal Work Week Hours: How Many Hours Should You Work?

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How many hours a week should you be working? The ideal work week hours may shock you. New data across multiple studies reveals the maximum number of hours you should be working.

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As a entrepreneur I constantly struggle with how many hours a week I should be working. After asking my friends and clients I learned that I am not along. There are so many different factors that go into how many hours you can work. The type of work, the length of the shift and how often you take breaks. Finding your ideal work week hours is the foundation of unlocking your productivity potential.

In the end, it comes down to biology; from a biological stand point how many hours can your brain handle before you begin to experience negative returns? Sadly, we have no control over what the ideal work week hours are.

Your working week can be much longer if you are self-employed or how many hours an employee usually work in a before overtime applies? The four hour work week is a game changer. It showed entrepreneurs across the globe that success had little to do with how many hours worked. I’d encourage you to check out the 10 best ideas the 4 hour work week by Tim Ferris has to offer. No need to read the whole thing, the summary will give you the entrepreneurial mindset shift you need.

It can be hard to walk away from a 80 hour work week after watching this. You’ll have to watch the whole video to uncover the ideal work hours and how you can maximize your productivity in the time that you have.

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I work 85-100 every week and have for the past six months. I'm fine! *rocks back and forth traumatized*

thirtyworld

Damn... You're cranking these videos out on a high level! I gotta step my game up... Thanks!

DirtyWeights

Nice to see a video on youtube that isn't just someone's opinion

yeryer

This was very very helpful man, God bless you!

nicolaroberto

This confirms researcg I had come across elsewhere. Thanks

bigblue

So, I'm going to challenge that idea, and specifically this little nugget that you put in the end and didn't really go deep into it ("of course, 8 hours do not include commute time, distraction etc."). I don't have any study to back me up immediately, but my hypothesis is, your maximum number of those hours (the actual working time, without the pee breaks, unnecessary talking, distractions etc.) is really limited to about 5-5.5h a day (for an average day).

I have 2 reasons for that:
1) If you ever start to use pomodoro (or any other work cycle technique) in a group of at least 10 people, you'll notice how it's almost impossible for most of them to get over 5h(actual work hours)/day. Sure, some are capable of working in those cycles for 8-9h (which is at least 12h in real hours, including some time off the work to clean your head), but that's an exception.
2) I'm sure all the research you showed us didn't really measure the "actual working hours", rather they measured real hours people spent during their shifts, doing something (sure, most of them probably worked at that time most of the time, but we don't know how effective it was, so it's safe to assume that it wasn't really effective and they had a lot of those pee/smoke breaks, unnecessary talking, distractions.

So, yeah, 25h of actual work a week is, actually, a lot.

antonkalashnikov

I wonder if CDC considers household chores and family obligations count as work?

tchakhtchoukha

I work as a dance teacher/ dancer. That means i teach dance classes and i have dance classes as well. I work 50-60 hours a week but it changes from week to week (including the classes i have) and honestly i was at a breaking point. More my body then mental. This quarantine is (as horrible the reason for it is) giving me so much good things. Idk how i can cut it down tho. My boyfriend tells me i should choose between teaching and being a dancer. But i don’t wnat to let my group down and i cannot stop teaching. I teach kids with special needs as well and i am one of the only one in our company who teaches them and i will definitely not stop and doing that. Do you have any tips for me? Should i cut the hours down?

simonamelody

So what about people who work more than one job. For example 3 jobs per day and each job is for 5 hours?

samanthahardy

Maximum productivity of work hours per week:
35-48 hours a week

NuttedInYoMom

I am working 10.15 × 6 per week with 45 Minutes overall break per day....Night shift. Whether my health is going to affect because of these working lifestyle????

sarathbabu