you are not spending those 80 hours in a single location.
work-lunch and commute: 10-15 hours;
errands, shopping: 5 hours;
go out, dinner, friends, etc: 5-10 hours;
weekend activities: 5-15 hours.
these numbers are made up based on my experience. some people spend more time at home than others.
what remains is that work is the single largest block of time that you spend in the same location with the same group of people who are not all family and friends in an environment that you don't have any control over, and where you have no choice but to be there unless you quit your job. you don't even have to hang out at home if you don't like it there.
so work better be a place where i actually enjoy spending time because life is to short to suffer through a bad workplace.
Ah I see where our miscommunication is, I think. The comment I was responding to said "A company is where people spend most of their time" - I was simply saying that that's false, because most of your time is spent somewhere other than work. I think what you're saying is that (excluding sleep) a plurality of your time is spent at work, meaning that everything else you do (individually) is less time.
To clarify, I was looking at "work" and "not work" and seeing "not work" at the top. You're (I think) looking at each individual activity, and seeing "work" in #1 or #2.
what matters is that we need to look at time in the context of what should be adjusted to how people want to live their lives
to answer that question we need to look at what is taking up the biggest chunk in our life because that is where a change will have the most effect. if the biggest chunk is supposed to be "not work" then we end up with hundreds of little things that are different for every person that we could improve (many of which in fact are being improved) while we are ignoring the one chunk that affects most people a large part of their time, which is work.
it is interesting to note that one of the things that is happening slowly is the reduction of work hours (4day week, etc) which puts a larger focus on the "not work" parts of our lives. less work means we need more options for people to spend their free time.
that leaves 72-80 hours for other stuff. but,
you are not spending those 80 hours in a single location.
work-lunch and commute: 10-15 hours; errands, shopping: 5 hours; go out, dinner, friends, etc: 5-10 hours; weekend activities: 5-15 hours.
these numbers are made up based on my experience. some people spend more time at home than others.
what remains is that work is the single largest block of time that you spend in the same location with the same group of people who are not all family and friends in an environment that you don't have any control over, and where you have no choice but to be there unless you quit your job. you don't even have to hang out at home if you don't like it there.
so work better be a place where i actually enjoy spending time because life is to short to suffer through a bad workplace.