Profs work hard, mostly because we think we're doing something good, but this is a lot.
Originally shared by Joerg Fliege
UK academic workload
Average per week: 50.9 hours. (Full professors: 56.1 hours. PostDocs: 55.7 hours.)
Percentages of academics that report that certain activities "now consume much more of their time than three years ago": departmental administration (51%), student-related administration (45%), departmental meetings (31%), grading (28%), pastoral care (26%).
https://www.timeshighereducation.com/news/ucu-report-academics-work-two-days-week-unpaid
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When we let politics trump science, people are needlessly put in harm's way. http://arstechnica.com/science/2017/01/self-censoring-fears...
51 hours a week is norm for a lot of professions...except sales. They only seem to work 20 hours a week haha
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