A 40-hour work year is 2,080 hours. After US federal holidays, 2026 has 2,000 working hours and 2027 has 1,992. After average paid vacation, 2026 drops to about 1,912. Tables, arithmetic and how to use the number.
Coffee badging means badging into the office, staying long enough to be seen, then working from home. Where the term came from, how common it is in 2026, why people do it, and what it says about attendance-based policies.
Reconstructing how you spent a week from memory or a calendar fails. Sam Corcos logged 17,784 hours and still would have put recruiting at 20% instead of 3%. Contemporaneous logs plus a small category set is the practice.
Everyone says measure outcomes. For individual knowledge work that mostly doesn't work — outcomes lag, they can't be attributed, and luck dominates. Here is the measurable alternative: time on goals, paired with energy.