There& #39;s a type of analysis, typically from non-educators, that conflates "instructional hours" with "teacher work hours."

It produces silly "teachers only work & #39;X& #39; hours" takes and is either the result of ignorance or malice, (likely both).

If you interrogate this line of thinking for ten seconds, the holes become apparent. It& #39;s like assuming John David Washington & Christopher Nolan only worked 3 hours this year based off the run-time of Tenet or that TV news anchors only work the hour they& #39;re on air each day.

You have to be daft to not understand that every hour of instruction requires a commensurate amount of planning and assessment of student work—in particular in an online environment where you& #39;re creating everything new or adapting your existing materials.