Being around, being available to inquiries, questions, support, anything, is work.
Even taking a coffee break and a nap in between two active coding sessions is work - if only because those two sessions are related in purpose, and because your mind still processes your work during the "break".
Even unproductive, lousy days when nothing gets accomplished are work; if only because it sometimes is only your mind reflecting on an issue that you will, it seems, "code in a matter of 2 hours", while in reality, it tooks the two previous days to get/discuss/put things in perspective to allow for these 2 hours to cristallize the solution.
Your productivity is in your context and output. Not in the exact quantity you put in.
The taylorist factory view just does not function at all with design/creative work.
Being around, being available to inquiries, questions, support, anything, is work.
Even taking a coffee break and a nap in between two active coding sessions is work - if only because those two sessions are related in purpose, and because your mind still processes your work during the "break".
Even unproductive, lousy days when nothing gets accomplished are work; if only because it sometimes is only your mind reflecting on an issue that you will, it seems, "code in a matter of 2 hours", while in reality, it tooks the two previous days to get/discuss/put things in perspective to allow for these 2 hours to cristallize the solution.
Your productivity is in your context and output. Not in the exact quantity you put in.
The taylorist factory view just does not function at all with design/creative work.