Hours in your work week

[Threviel]

I worked at a call center once, they had work days lasting either 7, 8 or 9 hours with 30 or 45 min lunch. All statistics showed that no matter what combination each employee did almost exactly the same work independent of working hours and lunch was equally long independent of scheduled lunch. We logged in to a call system with computers so they had very exact statistics.

The employees were also dissatisfied and turnover was 100%+ yearly.

So they did what HR people do and mandated 8 hrs and 45 min lunch for everyone always.

Personally I would have gone with 7 hour days and 30 min lunch, especially as demand was highest in the mornings and evenings, so one hour midday could be cut from everyone almost without consequences.

I don't really believe in long working days, I have a span of about 5 hours when I'm working at peak efficiency, the rest of the day I might as well just garden or whatever.

[Tonitrus]

Salaried, at least 60 every week and often more, especially during QE close when it's often closer to 100.

Will this lead to an early retirement or an early grave? Tune in to find out!

"If you work for a living, why do you kill yourself working?"

[The Brain]

Salaried, at least 60 every week and often more, especially during QE close when it's often closer to 100.

He twerks hard for the money.

[Barrister]

I'll give my answer, but I don't know how many people fall into my situation.

So I'm in government, non-unionized, non-management - which is a category probably only lawyers fall into.  But of course we work in an overall union workplace, as all non-lawyers are members of the union.  As such our official work hours are 37.5 per week, starting at 8:15, ending at 4:30 (45 minute lunch).

So I mostly keep to those hours.  Honestly I come in a bit after 8:15, and leave by 4:15 most days.

But I am salaried.  If court runs late - too bad.  If I need to work late or on a weekend because of a big trial - too bad.  But I'm experienced enough I don't usually need to work extended hours to prepare my trials (as a baby Crown it was a different story).

We're also given a system of Earned Days Off (EDO) which are supposed to make up for that unpaid overtime.  But the downside is you can not schedule one in advance.  But if you have a free day in your calendar for that month you can get it off as an EDO.  But given how much is put on my schedule to begin with, and given the need to actually do work when I'm not in court, I think I take about 1.5 EDOs per year.

So anyways - I'm answering 35-40 (but with spikes).

[Caliga]

Will this lead to an early retirement or an early grave? Tune in to find out!

Probably the latter.

[Habbaku]

But why?

[viper37]

But why?

Living in Kentucky ain't what it used to be
Back in the goold old days, all you had to worry about was a stray Cherokee tomahawk going your way.
Now, I can only imagine the kind of horrors that surface everyweek to mandate a 100 hours workweek to survive.

[DGuller]

I can't imagine what kind of horror a state with Mitch McConnell and Rand Paul as its Senators has to offer.

[Eddie Teach]

I can't imagine

This is why you became an accountant. 

[DontSayBanana]

On paper, my work week is 38.75 hrs (we do 45-min lunches). In practice, I have clocked 53 hours of work time in a single week before, and as I have one of the absolute highest-level positions in the company that's non-exempt, I take my pound of flesh for it. Lately, I've gotten it down to around 40 even, but it won't go down to the scheduled slots without staffing up with all the crazy expansion projects I've been up to my eyeballs in.

And Meri, that's not just "indecent ideas" about salary-work-life balance, that's a labor lawsuit waiting to happen. Hoping you can escape to greener pastures soon, definitely before somebody hauls out an employment contract and starts highlighting hours commitments...

[Valmy]

Will this lead to an early retirement or an early grave? Tune in to find out!

Probably the latter.

You can always post on Languish if it gets too stressful at work. Maybe that relaxes you and helps your health and peace of mind. Civil War hijacks always do that for me.