Accounting for working time remotely - do I need to take into account breaks?

Question

Time Management

Before that, I worked in the office as expected for 8 hours + 1 hour for lunch. After transferring to remote work, I was surprised to find that I work less than 20-30 hours a month, although according to physiological sensations I work more than in the office. I have a time tracking software installed. Every time I start a task, I press a button. An hour later, the timer stops and I take a break for 10 minutes (I drink coffee, hang on the horizontal bar, etc.). After that, I sit down at the table again and press the button. And then I realized that I take into account the "clean" time spent on the task, which is why I have such shortfalls at the end of the month. But a working day != work on a task. How to be in this case? Add to yourself 2 hours a day in time accounting (an hour for lunch + an hour for breaks)? I'm not a robot and not a slave to sit for 8 hours without getting up from the computer.

Answer 1

I decided for myself that it’s worth including lunch time and short 5-minute breaks (what more is already impudence). I argue that lunch is included in the work schedule, and a little rest is the basis of time management, without which it is simply unrealistic to work.
Thanks everyone for the replies.

Answer 2

This needs to be addressed with your manual, which requires the installation of this program.
All other advice will be irrelevant to your situation.
And some will even say that you need to work not 8 hours a day, but with your head.

Answer 3

A security guard can work hourly, he is at work all the time even when he drinks coffee. Only a clinical idiot can count engineering hours. Somehow they also tried to count the time for me, they counted it in a week so that the received calculations quietly disappeared somewhere and no one ever returned to this topic again.
In fact, you solve non-Olympiad problems, and any problem you solve either brings profit to the enterprise or reduces losses, otherwise your work is meaningless. For good, your pay should depend on a certain percentage of the benefit you bring, even potential

Answer 4

What is the problem? Write in the report as much as the management requires. And accounting for breaks depends on your goals. Why are you counting time?