40 hours of total work. Not 40h of your best work, 40h of output.

If that lands you in the bottom 15%, I’d start looking for other opportunities.

I’ve been in your shoes. We had time tracking and for me to consistently log 40h of actual work in a week, I’d have to sit in front of my computer from morning to night. Even weekends sometimes to catch up on what I’d missed.

What a fool I was.

I did that for years for mediocre pay (although I couldn’t see it at the time) to the detriment of everything else around me.

It wasn’t worth it. Now I couldn’t care less. The whole “quiet quitting” phenomenon resonates deeply with me.