Working From Home: How Much Time Can You Save By Skipping TV Intros?
At Office Furniture Online we’ve taken a look at some of the most popular TV shows right now and how much time you save by hitting that ‘skip’ button for TV intros.
The answer is 30 hours per year!
That’s right, more than 1 whole day a year saved from skipping intros. That’s A LOT of time. Think about what else you could be doing during those 30 hours.
How Many Episodes of Your Favourite TV Show Can You Watch During Your Lunchbreak?
We’re sure many of you have been bingeing your favourite shows whilst working remotely. If you’ve been working from home since the beginning of the pandemic, why not break up the day with a short episode or two of your favourite TV show?
Office Furniture Online has discovered how many episodes of popular TV shows we could fit in during our lunch break hour – and how much time we can save by skipping their intros.
Most Popular TV Shows
To find the most popular shows being watched right now, we looked at what was listed in the ‘Most Popular’ section on Netflix, as well as picked out some of IMDb’s most watched TV shows of all time.
Length of Intros/Episodes:
We then took note of intro and episode lengths:
- The Office: 20 seconds (22 minutes)
- Brooklyn Nine-Nine: 21 seconds (23 minutes)
- New Girl: 22 seconds (30 minutes)
- Parks and Recreation: 22 seconds (21 minutes)
- Big Bang Theory: 23 seconds (22 minutes)
- Sons of Anarchy: 38 seconds (45 minutes)
- Walking Dead: 42 seconds (1 hour)
- Grace and Frankie: 43 seconds (30 minutes)
- Friends: 46 seconds (22 minutes)
- Gogglebox: 50 seconds (60 minutes)
- Vikings: 51 seconds (44 minutes)
- Gilmore Girls: 55 seconds (45 minutes)
- American Horror Story: 60 seconds (60 minutes)
- Fresh Prince of Bel-Air: 66 seconds (24 minutes)
- Dexter: 97 seconds (55 minutes)
- The Sopranos: 98 seconds (50 minutes)
- The Simpsons: 86 seconds (22 minutes)
- Game of Thrones: 118 seconds (55 minutes)
So, on your lunch break you could fit in three episodes of Brooklyn 99, Friends, The Simpsons, Parks & Recreation, Big Bang Theory and The Office; two episodes of New Girl, Fresh Prince of Bel-Air and Grace & Frankie and one episode of Games of Thrones, Gilmore Girls, American Horror Story, The Sopranos, Gogglebox, Son of Anarchy and Vikings.
Which TV Show Has The Longest Intro?
Most Popular TV Shows
To find the most popular shows being watched right now, we looked at what was listed in the ‘Most Popular’ section on Netflix, as well as picked out some of IMDb’s most watched TV shows of all time.
Length of Intros From Longest to Shortest:
- Game of Thrones: 118 seconds
- The Sopranos: 98 seconds
- Dexter: 97 seconds
- The Simpsons: 86 seconds
- Fresh Prince of Bel-Air: 66 seconds
- American Horror Story: 60 seconds
- Gilmore Girls: 55 seconds
- Vikings: 51 seconds
- Gogglebox: 50 seconds
- Friends: 46 seconds
- Grace and Frankie: 43 seconds
- Walking Dead: 42 seconds
- Sons of Anarchy: 38 seconds
- Big Bang Theory: 23 seconds
- New Girl: 22 seconds
- Parks and Recreation: 22 seconds
- Brooklyn Nine-Nine: 21 seconds
- The Office: 20 seconds
When working from home it can be difficult to separate your home life from work time – and switching off to relax at the end of the day can be hard. The benefit of taking a decent break during your work day will help to reset your focus and lift your mood for the afternoon, so ensure that you’re sticking to your usual lunch hour time. Fitting in an episode or two of your favourite TV show can help ease the stress of the work day, and also curb the habit of eating at your desk, which can make your lunch hour not feel like a break at all.
So, when you’re planning your day of remote working and can’t seem to tear yourself away from your favourite show – don’t worry, you can fit in an episode or two during your lunch break when you skip the tv intros!
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