I found this article very interesting. I am a special education teacher, although currently on medical leave for cancer treatment. Before the pandemic hit, I averaged 50-60 hours per week. Teaching, I LOVE. It’s the paperwork that kills you. Of course, in special education there is so much paperwork required by state and federal law. If you don’t do it on time you get in trouble because that means your school will be out of compliance. So putting things off is definitely not an option. Besides, I always want to do a good job and be proud of my work. On top of the IEP meetings and paperwork, there are the teaching tasks: Lesson planning, grading, progress monitoring each student and reporting all of the results in multiple ways, and actually teaching! After the pandemic hit, I worked 50-70 hours per week because many of those things take longer to accomplish remotely.