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The time between two commutes where your calendar fights your to-do list and wins.
means The portion of the day designated for work, bounded by a start and end time, during which you are nominally employed in earning your keep.
from A straightforward compound of 'work' and 'day,' both ancient English words — 'work' tracing back to Old English 'weorc' meaning deed or labor, and 'day' from Old English 'dæg.' The compound itself emerged as a practical label once people needed to distinguish the portion of the day devoted to labor from the rest of it, and later came to mean the whole calendar unit — a day on which work happens, as opposed to a day off.
- average length
- 8 hours scheduled, 3 hours actually focused
- etymology
- literally just work plus day, zero poetry
- meetings paradox
- invented to save time, mostly spends it
- peak productivity
- happens right before you have to leave