Academic Workload Tracker for 2025
Via Brendan Keoqh on BluesSky:
I have updated the Academic Workload Tracker for 2025. I strongly encourage all academics to track how long you actually work, and at what tasks. It's a crucial way to counter the deliberate wage-theft of obfuscatory university workload models.
This may be important in 2025 in Aotearoa. Sounding like TEC may be auditing the books of some of the universities. Data from the workers themselves that reflects what they are actually doing could be empowering.
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Heh.
I did something like this last year for a couple of months, because my pay was cut from 0.8 FTE to 0.5 FTE, and I wanted to demonstrate that it was not possible to keep up with work demand at the lower rate. My statements fell on deaf ears, even after I produced figures and results demonstrating the issues.
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I think this would be helpful if a broad swath of academics in Aotearoa organised and used it. Then there would be a set of data that could be used together. The strength is in the numbers.
