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April 4, 2022 02:01 pm

The Rise of the 9 p.m. Work Hour

An anonymous reader shares a report: Last week, Microsoft published a study that offers an eerie reflection of my working life. Traditionally, the researchers said, white-collar workers -- or "knowledge workers," in the modern parlance -- have had two productivity peaks in their workday: just before lunch and just after lunch. But since the pandemic, a third and smaller bump of work has emerged in the late evening. Microsoft's researchers refer to this phenomenon as the "triple peak day." For the new study, workers allowed Microsoft to track their "keyboard events" -- a funny euphemism for sending emails or engaging with productivity applications on a work computer. While most people didn't show a third mountain of work in the evening, 30 percent did. They were working almost as much at 10 p.m. as they were at 8 a.m. Several underlying phenomena are pushing up this third mountain of work. One is the flexibility of at-home work. For example, parents of young kids might interrupt their workday or cut it off early for school pickup, dinnertime, bedtime, and other child care. This leaves a rump of work that they finish up later. Other workers are night owls who get their second wind -- or even their primary gust of creativity -- just before bed.

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