[fhd2]

(1) is not something the typical employee can do, in my experience. They're expected to work eight hours a day. Though I suppose the breaks could be replaced with low effort / brain power work to implement a version of that.

[ryukoposting]

Work for a smaller company with more reasonable expectations of a knowledge worker.

You're an engineer, not a manager, or a chef, or anything else. Nothing you do needs to be done Monday-Friday between the hours of 8 and 5 (except for meetings). Sometimes it's better if you don't do that, actually. If your work doesn't understand that, they suck and you should leave.

[antirez]

Yep, slow QA, things that also make the real difference in quality.