I find that most of the "most people" who fall into the category of "working" that many hours but actually only doing 40 hours of work related work are the younger/entitlement generation (I'm 35 fwiw)
When you are at work, do you work. You shouldn't be browsing reddit or checking facebook/twitter or fantasy football/espn. You shouldnt have a chat client open with friends/family (create a work only one)
At our office we are allowed (and encouraged) to read tech blogs such as hackernews, but no one abuses that and reads for hours on end.
We use RescueTime and part of our 8 hours includes email, irc (work #channel), instant message (work only 'friends' screenname), reading rss on top of the actual coding. No one is looked down on for having a high google/stackoverflow time in a week.
Two 4 hour blocks of coding is not that hard (and normally broken up with meetings or some form of communication anyways)
I find people that have to work 10+ hours to get in 8 actual work related hours are the same people who used to "NEED music" to study. Just have some self discipline and focus.
When you are at work, do you work. You shouldn't be browsing reddit or checking facebook/twitter or fantasy football/espn. You shouldnt have a chat client open with friends/family (create a work only one)
At our office we are allowed (and encouraged) to read tech blogs such as hackernews, but no one abuses that and reads for hours on end.
We use RescueTime and part of our 8 hours includes email, irc (work #channel), instant message (work only 'friends' screenname), reading rss on top of the actual coding. No one is looked down on for having a high google/stackoverflow time in a week.
Two 4 hour blocks of coding is not that hard (and normally broken up with meetings or some form of communication anyways)
I find people that have to work 10+ hours to get in 8 actual work related hours are the same people who used to "NEED music" to study. Just have some self discipline and focus.