Well, a rough metric I’ve used is “I feel like I have a substantial increase in the likelihood of crashing my car into something or someone else if I attempt to commute to work today, because of exhaustion.”
After all, if you’re THAT worn out, even if you get to work you may just be staring at a screen blankly and getting nothing done for half the day anyway, so you really shouldn’t be billing hours to people.
That’s not perfect, but it also heavily depends on what your job is and your ability to get work done when at or near burned out, and your vacation/sick schedule, so I’m not sure if there’s going to be a single answer for everyone.
Well, a rough metric I’ve used is “I feel like I have a substantial increase in the likelihood of crashing my car into something or someone else if I attempt to commute to work today, because of exhaustion.”
After all, if you’re THAT worn out, even if you get to work you may just be staring at a screen blankly and getting nothing done for half the day anyway, so you really shouldn’t be billing hours to people.
That’s not perfect, but it also heavily depends on what your job is and your ability to get work done when at or near burned out, and your vacation/sick schedule, so I’m not sure if there’s going to be a single answer for everyone.