When you work from home, it can be challenging to separate your work and personal life. You may have kids running in to try to get you to play with toys, cook a meal or play outside. You may be tempted to accept personal calls, take a long lunch in front of the television or spend the day keeping up

If your employees work an 8 hour day, you might assume they’re being productive for all 8 of those hours. You’d be wrong, though, according to a study of 2,000 full-time office employees. The number of hours that employees consider themselves to be productive is not 8. It’s not 7, 6, 5, 4, or even 3 hours of the workday.