Anton Kurakin
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Busyness Index

Are we actually working? How much of the workday is filled with activity — and how much of that activity turns into finished outcomes?

Not scientific. It does not measure personal productivity. It looks at whether the work environment rewards visible busyness more than progress.

12 questions · ~2 minutes

How busy are you — and what actually changes?

Answer for a normal workweek. The first option means little noise or useful activity. The last means the workday is becoming a presence simulator.

01 How much of a normal workday is spent in meetings?
02 How often do you feel expected to reply quickly in chat?
03 How much time goes into status updates, decks and proving progress?
04 How often does a new “urgent” task replace already agreed work?
05 How much uninterrupted time do you usually get for one difficult task?
06 At the end of the week, how easy is it to name 1–3 finished outcomes?
07 How often does a meeting exist mostly because it is already on the calendar?
08 How many work questions genuinely need a synchronous answer right now?
09 Do you repeat the same information in multiple places?
10 What most often determines what you do next?
11 How often do you end the day with lots started and little finished?
12 If half of your work activities disappeared, how much would real output suffer?

Why this exists

Busyness is easy to see. Progress is not always

Calendars, Slack, status updates and urgent requests create a very convincing feeling of work. High activity and high outcome velocity are not the same thing.

The goal is not to remove communication. It is to notice when coordination starts consuming more energy than the work itself.