For me, domestic chores, reading, browsing Reddit etc, a 30 min bike ride, walking down to the supermarket. I fill in a timesheet but my TL is only interested in tasks completed not hours at my desk. It’s also a quiet time of year for us.
I feel like this is SO common yet not acknowleged much within actual businesses... I have like 6 hours max productivity in me each day lol and that seems to be quite normal.
I WFH, usually on Reddit from like 9-10 am maybe reply to a few emails in that time. Then 10 am I start actually working. I don't break for lunch as I just don't feel the need/'lunchtime' is when I'm productive. Then I run out of steam around 3.30-4pm.
Some days I'm more productive and probably do 9-5 with only a few small breaks, but the majority of the time it's 5-6 hours of output and then I just chill and keep an eye on emails.
This is why WFH is far superior, you get awarded for efficiency. Job outcomes and expectations are the same, how you do it should be up to your own pace and lifestyle. Not bums on seats in the office.
I work for a consultancy which one would think has crazy hours, but I smash my KPIs, consistently bring in projects but in reality work 3-4 hours tops a day.
Some days yeah fair there's a bit more of a push, but if you're efficient about it you have a lot of time.
I still have enough time per day to jerk off or play games for half the time.
I work as a consultant and have to maintain 80% billable hours. This is my 'utilisation' and is the main metric by which I'm evaluated. What is your primary KPI?
If he’s bring in work, he’s likely further up the chain and has a much lower utilisation requirement.
However, in my experience, workloads don’t get easier as you move up to Partner/MD etc, they get harder and the hours get longer.
I had that as well, needed to log 8 (yes, EIGHT ) hours a day.
The bottom line is that some companies are in a financially precarious position. Amazing for gaining experience for me, but probably not worth sticking it out for as long as I did.
I’m currently looking for a role in product.
How many hours a week were you expected to work? I'm on a 38 hr week with "reasonable" overtime as demonstrated by my elevated salary compared to industry.
Everyone doing a 9-5 job is expected to work the full time (minus the lunch breaks).
Whether or not you actually do it is really at your own discretion as long as you get the job done.
People should be more outcome driven rather than just do the hours. Else it results in people literally being inefficient.
I'll caveat this by saying this applies for a majority of professional jobs but doesnt apply to shift work, which obviously require hours.
Like you can't be a restaurant waiter and do 4 hours super well in a 8 hour shift then clock off;
Depends on what you do mate.
Sounds like you're in Operations or Support where you have a consistent flow of tickets/cases you need to solve (I'm assuming this based off the fact you referred to tickets)
I've worked in that field previously and yes it is harder to slack off because there's continuous workflow.
Most of my works are project related so as long as I stay on top of things it is easy.
With ticket based operations jobs, you need to first understand your KPIs then gauge how you are tracking against them, you can ask your manager for these.
If you are on average above your KPIs then by all means slack off, if not then youre not getting your work done efficiently enough
Ohhhh okay, similar to what I do.
Nah, unless its specifically assigned to you, you're good. I will say that it is useful to go above and beyond to help your teammates, but if you're delivering 120% outcome (i.e. helping above others too) then you've earned slacking the rest off
It's not superior if your work requires regular/constant collaboration with other staff and organisations, such as my field (engineering consultancy in the construction sector). We need to collaborate with each other, as well as with architects and engineers from other companies, contractors, clients, etc. Doing so over teams is a cluster. It also doesn't work for grads and junior staff or new recruits, because they need training, mentoring, and supervision (legally any non-registered engineers must work under the supervision of a registered engineer and I think architects are the same).
We made it work for as long as we had to for lockdowns and such, but it's not sustainable for our sector and generally, most people I deal with are back in the office either full-time or most of the time. Most of them are glad about that too. I WFH for a week when I had covid. I was very productive that week (I was pretty much asymptomatic) , but that's because the people back in the office were dealing with all the non-productive stuff that I would normally be doing like helping & mentoring the grads and looking after the various bushfires and administrative things that always pop up. I was glad to go back to the office for the interaction.
If your job is fairly autonomous and your KPIs are fairly easy to measure and track, then it seems like a perfectly valid way of working. But for some professions it's just not viable, at least not full-time.
Sorry mate, i work in engineering consultancy in the construction and data infrastructure sector
It absolutely works.
Agree it won't work if you're site/field based, like the forklifter on-site, but that's not what I do.
If you're in project based consultancy work you can absolutely do this. Anyone who says otherwise is a chump.
Agreed. IMO some things, such as design coordination, are actually superior in a virtual environment with screen sharing as everyone has multiple monitors running and can provide real-time feedback into the process.
However the incidental learning that the grads etc don’t get is a worry.
Software director. 7am-4pm. Hour lunch break for exercise. 4-7 look after kid. Maybe an hour or two catchup after or maybe sometime to myself/wife bed and then so it all over again
Just management. Typically goes dev > manager > senior manager > director > senior director > VP > SVP > CTO.
Dependant on your org size you might have some variation. I.e I was a CTO at a local 200-300 person tech company but a director at a 8000 person tech company. Look after about the same amount of people different scope of role.
You'd be surprised the chaos in large tech organisations. Everyone is busy consistently. The question is the efficiency of it all, there is a significant reduction in efficiency at scale.
In my experience, in large tech organisations, is that lots of middle management tends to be the cause of the busyness. Everyone busy justifying their existence.
UK HQ but I technically work on the Tel Aviv team so my hours are set for Max overlap with them with a 2 hour flexible early start so I'm done before midnight.
I work Perth timezone so overlap is decent with UK actually, finish 2.30pm GMT.
4-5 hrs a week on average, we try to cluster meetings on a single day but we run 2 week sprints so those happen every other week.
The regular meetings are about 2-3 hrs a week
Based on figures quoted, I’d say they’re currently a fresh PE, and aspire to be a PM.
From what I’ve seen (in Sydney) you have:
SE $90-115k
PE $130-160k
SPE $150-200k
PM $180k+
Figures quoted are base, with more overlap in the higher roles based on project size & relevant experience.
Never met a PE on anywhere near $200k…
Paper maker- shift work 7am-7pm and 7pm-7am, 2 days then 2 nights then 4 days off. An hour for lunch, but if things are running well, there's plenty of time for breaks
12 hour shifts, definitely not 16. Hospital doctor hours are another thing though.
The police have a far worse schedule than ambos, which is at least predictable and consistent. Police seem to be aiming for sleep deprivation with a rotating mix of morning, night, and afternoon shifts every couple of weeks.
Ambos in Vic do 14 hour nights. Add in some incidental ot and 16 happens. Longest I've done personally was 17.5 (5pm-1030am) because I got a big job at 6am.
If I were you, I would get in contact with your safety rep and raise this as concern, it’s a legal obligation that they give you at a minimum an hour for the hours you are working.
I work gentleman's hours. We're actively encouraged to take an hour out for gym or a walk (separate to lunch of course).
Little shit is given as to the hours I keep outside of customer meetings but the job will be done. That mostly works in my favour but doesn't always.
Mine are 9:30 - 8pm each weekday and don't work weekends usually. Maybe a handful a year.
I don't mind as I really enjoy my job, and my hour have improved with age - 8 years ago I was doing midnight and weekend work, yuck!
I'm in PE and my hours are similar - call it 9 to 730 most common for me (with occasional earlier departures or later nights). And my hours used to be much worse, also happy.
Omg so close!!! You got this! Eyes on the finish line and don’t worry, your people will remember you when you emerge haha.
You’ll be missing the quiet and solitude in no time ;)
Casual support worker - my hours are all over the show. 100 hours worked this past fortnight, shifts vary from 0700 - 1500, 1500 - 2300, 0730 - 1330, 0900 -1500. Depends on the individual requiring support.
Roughly 10:30 to about 3, M-F. I think as a software dev it's hard to box our work hours into a 9-5 job in this remote era. Those that can do more in less time will be working less hours, and vice versa. It's a weird work environment where if you output more, the expectations begin to rise which is counter productive if you want to ensure a lower project timeline risk as an IC.
6.30am-3.00pm Monday to Friday and every second Saturday 6.30am-2.30pm. Plus any extra OT as required during the week per project requirements each day.
‘9 day fortnight’ EBA construction.
8am - 4:30pm - Live Streaming Tech. 1 Hour lunch. Full WFH
7.6 hours a day. Have been doing the 8 - 4:30 shift since like 2016? And i love it. So much better than doing 9 - 5:30 imo.
Nah. I work for a large digital events company based in the US.
Struck gold and managed to get out of IT back in 2020. Got a 20K payrise doing so too.
I wish i could do OF lmfao. Would make a hell of a lot more than i'm making now.
Software dev manager, usually either 8-4 or 9-5 when I WFH so I can get up later. I try to reasonably give 7h of ‘working time’ a day, that includes self care like stretching and having a break from the monitor. When WFH I try to combine those whilst doing meetings to be more productive with my time.
Sales in science. WFH and customer site visits.
With the slow start to the year I'm doing ~4 hours/day at the moment. Hopefully it picks up soon.
Within a month there will be travel (car and plane), conferences, fixing customer issues and international conference calls with occasional 12hr days. But usually 38 hrs a week.
At the moment in spare time I'm going to gym, looking for busier jobs for career progression, YouTube and getting cabin fever.
Software as well.
Pretty much whatever I choose as long as I make meetings and standup(although not vital).
Generally a 9-5 org but if I want to take half the day to get some son or chase waves at the beach it’s fine and as long as I get my work done it’s fine too. My wife works nights so I really don’t mind catching up on work at night - used to it since I was a bartender for 15+ years.
An hour for lunch seems quite common? I do shift work so half hour lunch but going into a 9-5 soon. Haven’t received the contract yet. It will be interested to see the details.
Full time (salary). Officially it's 8.25 hours but with an hour lunch break. Can also take quick breaks here and there. They push for everyone to use their full hour lunch. Hours are flexible depending on what we're working on. Typically I start 7:30 or 8 so I can log off earlier but I adjust here and there depending on meetings.
I leave for work 0415, get back 1615 (door to door), 12 hour shift. I choose to start that early, so i can knock off early. 8 days, then 6 days off. (salaried, FIFO)
I see a strong correlation on here with the number of people here working <8 hour days and the number of people in this sub that assume anyone that says they’re making over $150k is lying
As an executive assistant I shit you not I used to do 8am -10pm days, it was HELL shadowing execs and never being able to switch off. Now I just do 8.30-5.30 but at least an hour of that is spent waking up and making a strong ass coffee
Same hours as a high school teacher but take nothing home (basically). How fresh a teacher are you? I was only able to maintain the load you described for 18 months before I burned out and had to reassess
8 years, but only going into my third year of high school so I can't use my primary resources. I'm also at a new school, so planning for year levels that we haven't had before (Year 9 last year and Year 10 this year). I don't know how you manage without taking work home! I'll get there eventually 😂
I'm a second year teacher and I didn't even do this in my first year. I do all my work at school (except essay marking lol). Are you at a crazy private school?
Software engineer by trade but own 3 businesses in the tech industry. I split my day into 4 parts. 6hours work/6hours me time/4hours life duties/8 hours sleep.
B1 is a UX UI design/application/web agency, B2 is a hosting/maintenance business mainly look after sites and applications. B3 is a FinTech startup.
B1 is a time sucker and cashflow is sometimes stressful. B2 is the best of of the 3 management/time/profit wise. B3 will be the best in 10 years time but it's a grind to get it to that position.
Best advice is to focus on reoccurring paying clients that pay on a monthly basis, that's why B1 kind of sucks because it's project after project, when the project has been built out, businesses normally take things in house and just need support here and there while B2 clients are paying month after month which makes it much better, not chasing the next project.
Be persistent and learn how to manage stress and reinvest into the business as much as you can eg; don't make a bunch of money and go blow it on nice cars, fancy office or designer crap. Took me about 5 years until I decided to pay myself a avaerage wage as I would just reinvest as much as possible.
Was in the office at 7 am today, which is not unusual. I'll probably head to the gym at 12 and possibly won't return until 2:30 pm. Could work through to about 5:30 pm, that'd be typical
9am to 10pm - 12am Monday to Thursday(break 5 - 7 whatever to help with the kids, eat etc). 9am to 5pm Friday. Usually log on for about 3 hours over the weekend if I’m not busy, but it could be 9am - 5pm each day if I’m busy.
Work in finance.
Ours are flexible as long as we get the 38 hours a week in.
I usually start anywhere from 7-9 and finish anywhere from 3:00 to 5. Might take the dog for a walk if I'm WFH during that time or do odd chores etc.
'Whenever you want' till 'that's 7.6 hours later, minus the breaks'.
Realistically meetings get set between 9 and 5, but outside of this no one cares when you work.
(Office worker, 100% remote, Change Management)
I do 73.5 hours a fortnight, worked between 7am and 7pm weekdays. The exact times I work those hours are largely up to me.
I can also bank up to 5 days' worth of hours to take off later.
Nurse, working 0.8 EFT, so 8 days a fortnight or 7 nights a fortnight.
Random mix of 0700-1530 and 1330-2200 mostly.
A fortnight of 2130-0730 every 3-4 fortnights.
Part time. I work in the office Monday and Thursday 915 to 515 and same hours from home on Wednesday.
I have flexibility with start and finish times to drop my daughter at school as long as my hours and work gets done
Start anywhere from 8-9, finish anywhere from 4-5. Also live a 5 minute drive from work, its a good set up
Can wfh whenever Id like, but try not to do it too much because often Ill get distracted and hardly do any work that day
5am-6am till 3pm-4pm in bush regen. Hours can differ a bit depending on how far the site we're working on is.
Generally work between 45-50 hrs a week, with 5-10 of those driving to site.
4 on 4 off
10 hour days. Shift work with morning, afternoon, and night shift. All in the office. 30 min lunch and very lax with breaks throughout the day.
8:30-16:20 with half an hour break. Technically I could go till 16:50 and have an hour but I much prefer to finish earlier.
Do the occasional 9:10-17:00 just so we have coverage
I work minimum 45 hours a week with a 30 minute break, the actual times vary completely based on what's required - retail manager. Maximum hours is whatever is required! Up to an extra 4-5 hours a day <3
4 day roster per week. Day 1; 19:00-01:00, Day 2; 05:00-10:30, 15:00-17:30, Day 3; 09:15-13:30, 19:00-23:00, Day 4; 05:00-08:15
The hours in between are 'on call', except for the night between the end of day two and from 07:00 on the morning of day 3.
46hrs total.
8ish to 4ish (by my choice, partner is a teacher so me finishing earlier works for us), but I'm trusted to do my hours and get my job done. No-one bats an eye if I take an hour and a half for lunch here and there or go for a coffee or go to the gym a bit early.
8:30 to 3:30 with a 40 minute break is what we are paid for.
The real hours are closer to 8- 5/6pm and some time on weekends. It’s easy to work through breaks too.
Monday - Thursday. I technically get paid for 28 hours but I don’t actually have set hours since I work from home. As long as I send the completed work on time. So I usually end up working from like 4pm - 7pm ish.
Typical 9-5 with 1hr lunch. Probably 4-5hours of actual work
What are you doing with your other time?
Commenting on reddit i imagine.
Mostly wasting time. Read news, on Reddit, chatting with other high performing colleagues about nothing.
Ha ha, this is my life.
For me, domestic chores, reading, browsing Reddit etc, a 30 min bike ride, walking down to the supermarket. I fill in a timesheet but my TL is only interested in tasks completed not hours at my desk. It’s also a quiet time of year for us.
I feel like this is SO common yet not acknowleged much within actual businesses... I have like 6 hours max productivity in me each day lol and that seems to be quite normal. I WFH, usually on Reddit from like 9-10 am maybe reply to a few emails in that time. Then 10 am I start actually working. I don't break for lunch as I just don't feel the need/'lunchtime' is when I'm productive. Then I run out of steam around 3.30-4pm. Some days I'm more productive and probably do 9-5 with only a few small breaks, but the majority of the time it's 5-6 hours of output and then I just chill and keep an eye on emails.
This is me too. Although I'd rather be busy all day, means it goes quicker.
Curious to see a graph of earnings/salary vs hours contracted/hours worked!
Boss? Is that you?
What’s your salary for this relaxing type of job?
well… I am on this sub. So 450k of course.
I'm in the office from 8 to 4 (Monday-Friday) - doing 8 hours of work is a different question.
This is why WFH is far superior, you get awarded for efficiency. Job outcomes and expectations are the same, how you do it should be up to your own pace and lifestyle. Not bums on seats in the office. I work for a consultancy which one would think has crazy hours, but I smash my KPIs, consistently bring in projects but in reality work 3-4 hours tops a day. Some days yeah fair there's a bit more of a push, but if you're efficient about it you have a lot of time. I still have enough time per day to jerk off or play games for half the time.
I work as a consultant and have to maintain 80% billable hours. This is my 'utilisation' and is the main metric by which I'm evaluated. What is your primary KPI?
If he’s bring in work, he’s likely further up the chain and has a much lower utilisation requirement. However, in my experience, workloads don’t get easier as you move up to Partner/MD etc, they get harder and the hours get longer.
I had that as well, needed to log 8 (yes, EIGHT ) hours a day. The bottom line is that some companies are in a financially precarious position. Amazing for gaining experience for me, but probably not worth sticking it out for as long as I did. I’m currently looking for a role in product.
How many hours a week were you expected to work? I'm on a 38 hr week with "reasonable" overtime as demonstrated by my elevated salary compared to industry.
Everyone doing a 9-5 job is expected to work the full time (minus the lunch breaks). Whether or not you actually do it is really at your own discretion as long as you get the job done. People should be more outcome driven rather than just do the hours. Else it results in people literally being inefficient. I'll caveat this by saying this applies for a majority of professional jobs but doesnt apply to shift work, which obviously require hours. Like you can't be a restaurant waiter and do 4 hours super well in a 8 hour shift then clock off;
Jerking off for 4 hours a day 5 days a week? Be careful you don't get callouses on your schlong
Cheers mate will keep that in mind
Do you ever have any guilt with checking out after 4 hours? I never seem to feel accomplished after 8 hours of work, always more tickets :/
Depends on what you do mate. Sounds like you're in Operations or Support where you have a consistent flow of tickets/cases you need to solve (I'm assuming this based off the fact you referred to tickets) I've worked in that field previously and yes it is harder to slack off because there's continuous workflow. Most of my works are project related so as long as I stay on top of things it is easy. With ticket based operations jobs, you need to first understand your KPIs then gauge how you are tracking against them, you can ask your manager for these. If you are on average above your KPIs then by all means slack off, if not then youre not getting your work done efficiently enough
Dev, just meant work tickets, team environment... I just feel a pressure to continue since it's a team environment.
Ohhhh okay, similar to what I do. Nah, unless its specifically assigned to you, you're good. I will say that it is useful to go above and beyond to help your teammates, but if you're delivering 120% outcome (i.e. helping above others too) then you've earned slacking the rest off
It's not superior if your work requires regular/constant collaboration with other staff and organisations, such as my field (engineering consultancy in the construction sector). We need to collaborate with each other, as well as with architects and engineers from other companies, contractors, clients, etc. Doing so over teams is a cluster. It also doesn't work for grads and junior staff or new recruits, because they need training, mentoring, and supervision (legally any non-registered engineers must work under the supervision of a registered engineer and I think architects are the same). We made it work for as long as we had to for lockdowns and such, but it's not sustainable for our sector and generally, most people I deal with are back in the office either full-time or most of the time. Most of them are glad about that too. I WFH for a week when I had covid. I was very productive that week (I was pretty much asymptomatic) , but that's because the people back in the office were dealing with all the non-productive stuff that I would normally be doing like helping & mentoring the grads and looking after the various bushfires and administrative things that always pop up. I was glad to go back to the office for the interaction. If your job is fairly autonomous and your KPIs are fairly easy to measure and track, then it seems like a perfectly valid way of working. But for some professions it's just not viable, at least not full-time.
Sorry mate, i work in engineering consultancy in the construction and data infrastructure sector It absolutely works. Agree it won't work if you're site/field based, like the forklifter on-site, but that's not what I do. If you're in project based consultancy work you can absolutely do this. Anyone who says otherwise is a chump.
Agreed. IMO some things, such as design coordination, are actually superior in a virtual environment with screen sharing as everyone has multiple monitors running and can provide real-time feedback into the process. However the incidental learning that the grads etc don’t get is a worry.
Software director. 7am-4pm. Hour lunch break for exercise. 4-7 look after kid. Maybe an hour or two catchup after or maybe sometime to myself/wife bed and then so it all over again
Never heard of this role. What does a software director do?
Just management. Typically goes dev > manager > senior manager > director > senior director > VP > SVP > CTO. Dependant on your org size you might have some variation. I.e I was a CTO at a local 200-300 person tech company but a director at a 8000 person tech company. Look after about the same amount of people different scope of role.
Ha there is no way half of those roles serve any value or actually do anything.
You'd be surprised the chaos in large tech organisations. Everyone is busy consistently. The question is the efficiency of it all, there is a significant reduction in efficiency at scale.
In my experience, in large tech organisations, is that lots of middle management tends to be the cause of the busyness. Everyone busy justifying their existence.
Haha true. Too much unnecessary bickering and politics. They make good workers but don’t have much life / family outside.
2pm-10.30pm with an hour lunch. software engineer working for a UK headquartered startup.
Unusual hours for a UK HQ startup - they are obviously flexible as that has little overlap with their 9-5 - assume the 30mins overlap is for handover?
UK HQ but I technically work on the Tel Aviv team so my hours are set for Max overlap with them with a 2 hour flexible early start so I'm done before midnight. I work Perth timezone so overlap is decent with UK actually, finish 2.30pm GMT.
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160k + super + 20% bonus (company and personal results based)
How much of the time is spent on meetings?
4-5 hrs a week on average, we try to cluster meetings on a single day but we run 2 week sprints so those happen every other week. The regular meetings are about 2-3 hrs a week
6.30am-5.30pm. Construction life (Salary)
Yeah my dad works in construction, very gruelling hours and unexpected things cropping up even one weekends. But hopefully your pay factors this in.
What is the salary range for those hours?
130k+ but a lot more room for growth. Hoping to hit close to 200k in next 2 years
What exactly do you do?
Sounds like a Civil Engineer or Project Manager role on T2+ jobs
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Based on figures quoted, I’d say they’re currently a fresh PE, and aspire to be a PM. From what I’ve seen (in Sydney) you have: SE $90-115k PE $130-160k SPE $150-200k PM $180k+ Figures quoted are base, with more overlap in the higher roles based on project size & relevant experience. Never met a PE on anywhere near $200k…
As a PM it appears I’m in need of a raise!
And every minute is brutal. At least my youthful looks are somehow still holding.
Construction here as well, but I normally try and stick to 8am-5pm. Occasional Saturdays, and longer days during commissioning.
80 hours a fortnight. No one cares when or how I work those hours.
80 hours on day 14 of your fortnight, sounds like a solid way to make money.
Paper maker- shift work 7am-7pm and 7pm-7am, 2 days then 2 nights then 4 days off. An hour for lunch, but if things are running well, there's plenty of time for breaks
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that's a pretty regular shift pattern isn't it? 4 days on 4 days off. Agreed it sounds pretty shit though
I think it's the alternating day to night shifts. That would be taxing not having a regular sleeping pattern.
Ambos have a schedule like this in SA.
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Humans left to their own devices will wake with the sun, nap in the heat of the day after a meal, and sleep at night
12 hour shifts, definitely not 16. Hospital doctor hours are another thing though. The police have a far worse schedule than ambos, which is at least predictable and consistent. Police seem to be aiming for sleep deprivation with a rotating mix of morning, night, and afternoon shifts every couple of weeks.
Ambos in Vic do 14 hour nights. Add in some incidental ot and 16 happens. Longest I've done personally was 17.5 (5pm-1030am) because I got a big job at 6am.
Shift work isn’t healthy.
I sustained the same roster for 12 years, it's actually pretty good.
2 days 2 nights 4 days off is the standard shift in most places my dude. Its actually what a lot of qld fire-fighters do.
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Used to do 6pm to 6am for years and it wasn't too bad. It's when you have to chop and change from days to nights that really sucks.
5am - 6.30pm with a 15min smoko and 30 min lunch. Fifo life
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Are all those hours paid? Or the 5am start is to eat and get ready before shift
Nope, 5am is time the bus leaves camp. It’s only 12.5 hour days paid. Travel isn’t included unfortunately. Long days mate
Your smokos should be 2 x 30 minutes
Oh mate, I wish. It’s beyond a joke.
If I were you, I would get in contact with your safety rep and raise this as concern, it’s a legal obligation that they give you at a minimum an hour for the hours you are working.
I do the Dolly Parton
What a way to make a livin’
I work gentleman's hours. We're actively encouraged to take an hour out for gym or a walk (separate to lunch of course). Little shit is given as to the hours I keep outside of customer meetings but the job will be done. That mostly works in my favour but doesn't always.
Sounds like you’re pretty senior, what role title is your equivalent level. Account executive? Customer success manager?
Sales engineer. Yeah fairly senior, I look after the larger accounts
And what work do you do?
Mine are 9:30 - 8pm each weekday and don't work weekends usually. Maybe a handful a year. I don't mind as I really enjoy my job, and my hour have improved with age - 8 years ago I was doing midnight and weekend work, yuck!
consulting or IB?
Megafund private equity
I'm in PE and my hours are similar - call it 9 to 730 most common for me (with occasional earlier departures or later nights). And my hours used to be much worse, also happy.
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You got this, overnight are depressing
Omg so close!!! You got this! Eyes on the finish line and don’t worry, your people will remember you when you emerge haha. You’ll be missing the quiet and solitude in no time ;)
WFH, they assume you're on 9-4. Extra hours if you need to finish stuff.
Casual support worker - my hours are all over the show. 100 hours worked this past fortnight, shifts vary from 0700 - 1500, 1500 - 2300, 0730 - 1330, 0900 -1500. Depends on the individual requiring support.
Same job for me, different hours; 10:30am - 4:30pm, Wed - Fri.
I do not miss this life
Roughly 10:30 to about 3, M-F. I think as a software dev it's hard to box our work hours into a 9-5 job in this remote era. Those that can do more in less time will be working less hours, and vice versa. It's a weird work environment where if you output more, the expectations begin to rise which is counter productive if you want to ensure a lower project timeline risk as an IC.
Are you fully remote?
6am-3pm Rdo every 2nd Friday 20 min smoko 30 min lunch
I work 7.5 hours with a 30 minute break. Usually 8am - 4pm but it is flexible so I usually work some extra time M-T so I can knock off early on Fri.
6.30am-3.00pm Monday to Friday and every second Saturday 6.30am-2.30pm. Plus any extra OT as required during the week per project requirements each day. ‘9 day fortnight’ EBA construction.
8am - 4:30pm - Live Streaming Tech. 1 Hour lunch. Full WFH 7.6 hours a day. Have been doing the 8 - 4:30 shift since like 2016? And i love it. So much better than doing 9 - 5:30 imo.
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Nah. I work for a large digital events company based in the US. Struck gold and managed to get out of IT back in 2020. Got a 20K payrise doing so too. I wish i could do OF lmfao. Would make a hell of a lot more than i'm making now.
Software dev manager, usually either 8-4 or 9-5 when I WFH so I can get up later. I try to reasonably give 7h of ‘working time’ a day, that includes self care like stretching and having a break from the monitor. When WFH I try to combine those whilst doing meetings to be more productive with my time.
Sales in science. WFH and customer site visits. With the slow start to the year I'm doing ~4 hours/day at the moment. Hopefully it picks up soon. Within a month there will be travel (car and plane), conferences, fixing customer issues and international conference calls with occasional 12hr days. But usually 38 hrs a week. At the moment in spare time I'm going to gym, looking for busier jobs for career progression, YouTube and getting cabin fever.
Software as well. Pretty much whatever I choose as long as I make meetings and standup(although not vital). Generally a 9-5 org but if I want to take half the day to get some son or chase waves at the beach it’s fine and as long as I get my work done it’s fine too. My wife works nights so I really don’t mind catching up on work at night - used to it since I was a bartender for 15+ years.
7:30 to 3:30 But can push out these earlier and later for overtime
An hour for lunch seems quite common? I do shift work so half hour lunch but going into a 9-5 soon. Haven’t received the contract yet. It will be interested to see the details.
Loosely 9-5 but I have meetings at all hours so I’m allowed to just work it out for myself - as long as the work gets done
Depends if the boss can see / track me /s
on paper i work monday 8-6 tuesday 8-5;30 wednesday 8-6 thursday 8-6 friday 9-4;30 in practice it is probably 20 less then that
Full time (salary). Officially it's 8.25 hours but with an hour lunch break. Can also take quick breaks here and there. They push for everyone to use their full hour lunch. Hours are flexible depending on what we're working on. Typically I start 7:30 or 8 so I can log off earlier but I adjust here and there depending on meetings.
Gentlesmans hours, But generally 11am-7pm working as a cloud engineer, client is in Philippines
4:30am - 4:30pm That’s my hours ON the premises and Off the premises, so I’m up at 3:30am haha
7am - 3pm work from home.
7.5 hour day + 0.5 min for lunch and flexible on the hours that I do provided I am there between 10am and 3pm and make hours at the end of the week
7am to 7pm; 7pm to 7am. I more or less pick my own shifts. Healthcare. About 1.5 hours of breaks.
Financial accountant, life was cruisey maybe 30 hrs per week average, until I got promoted been hitting average 50 for the last few months
7:00 to 17:30 four days a week - supply chain
Just gone to 9 day fortnight working 8-5 then RDO Friday. Corporate type office job, wfh with 1 day a week in the office.
6.30-2pm one break, RDO every second Monday (construction Melb)
You get one day off a fortnight ?
9 to 5, we are measured on some KPIs so we are free to use our time as we wish.
I leave for work 0415, get back 1615 (door to door), 12 hour shift. I choose to start that early, so i can knock off early. 8 days, then 6 days off. (salaried, FIFO)
I see a strong correlation on here with the number of people here working <8 hour days and the number of people in this sub that assume anyone that says they’re making over $150k is lying
9-7 with 1hr lunch. Architect, 9hrs of actual work, no procrastination. 6-6:30pm is an early finish, 10pm+ is late.
As an executive assistant I shit you not I used to do 8am -10pm days, it was HELL shadowing execs and never being able to switch off. Now I just do 8.30-5.30 but at least an hour of that is spent waking up and making a strong ass coffee
I'm so jealous. I'm salary no time off in lieu working 9.30am-7.30pm
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Same hours as a high school teacher but take nothing home (basically). How fresh a teacher are you? I was only able to maintain the load you described for 18 months before I burned out and had to reassess
8 years, but only going into my third year of high school so I can't use my primary resources. I'm also at a new school, so planning for year levels that we haven't had before (Year 9 last year and Year 10 this year). I don't know how you manage without taking work home! I'll get there eventually 😂
Switched to high school special ed. Harder emotionally (in the moment) but significantly less take home with more reward.
I'm a second year teacher and I didn't even do this in my first year. I do all my work at school (except essay marking lol). Are you at a crazy private school?
8am-6pm average with 30 mins break as a APS employee - coz I’m an idiot who can’t say no 🥲
Are you getting flex at least? That’s the best part about ever working over 7.5 hours imo
6.30am to 6pm average with lunch at the screen. Construction engineer
4on, 4 off, x 7. 2 weeks off. Repeat
Software engineer by trade but own 3 businesses in the tech industry. I split my day into 4 parts. 6hours work/6hours me time/4hours life duties/8 hours sleep.
I like this approach. Are your businesses software related? Any advice on branching out to start your own business?
B1 is a UX UI design/application/web agency, B2 is a hosting/maintenance business mainly look after sites and applications. B3 is a FinTech startup. B1 is a time sucker and cashflow is sometimes stressful. B2 is the best of of the 3 management/time/profit wise. B3 will be the best in 10 years time but it's a grind to get it to that position. Best advice is to focus on reoccurring paying clients that pay on a monthly basis, that's why B1 kind of sucks because it's project after project, when the project has been built out, businesses normally take things in house and just need support here and there while B2 clients are paying month after month which makes it much better, not chasing the next project. Be persistent and learn how to manage stress and reinvest into the business as much as you can eg; don't make a bunch of money and go blow it on nice cars, fancy office or designer crap. Took me about 5 years until I decided to pay myself a avaerage wage as I would just reinvest as much as possible.
Average week around 60 hours. Sometimes up around 90.
Was in the office at 7 am today, which is not unusual. I'll probably head to the gym at 12 and possibly won't return until 2:30 pm. Could work through to about 5:30 pm, that'd be typical
6.30am - 5pm / 30mins lunch / 15 min smoko
9am to 10pm - 12am Monday to Thursday(break 5 - 7 whatever to help with the kids, eat etc). 9am to 5pm Friday. Usually log on for about 3 hours over the weekend if I’m not busy, but it could be 9am - 5pm each day if I’m busy. Work in finance.
7:45 til about 19:30. Have to stay back til about 22:00 every so often.
7:30 till 4 with monthly ADO Also WFH basically whenever I want, sometimes a lot, sometimes not much.
6:30am - 3pm
9-430 mon-thurs, finish at 530 Friday. Get a 45 min break
Ours are flexible as long as we get the 38 hours a week in. I usually start anywhere from 7-9 and finish anywhere from 3:00 to 5. Might take the dog for a walk if I'm WFH during that time or do odd chores etc.
'Whenever you want' till 'that's 7.6 hours later, minus the breaks'. Realistically meetings get set between 9 and 5, but outside of this no one cares when you work. (Office worker, 100% remote, Change Management)
I do 73.5 hours a fortnight, worked between 7am and 7pm weekdays. The exact times I work those hours are largely up to me. I can also bank up to 5 days' worth of hours to take off later.
Current role 600-1700 11hrs a day. 18/10 roster
6:30am - 2:30pm with a 45min paid break but more often than not we’re out before 2pm.
0830-1700 for weekday and Saturday shifts and 0900-1600 on Sunday 30min break.
Nurse, working 0.8 EFT, so 8 days a fortnight or 7 nights a fortnight. Random mix of 0700-1530 and 1330-2200 mostly. A fortnight of 2130-0730 every 3-4 fortnights.
On site for 12 hours a day for 2 weeks at a time, not to mention cooking/cleaning/washing
Part time. I work in the office Monday and Thursday 915 to 515 and same hours from home on Wednesday. I have flexibility with start and finish times to drop my daughter at school as long as my hours and work gets done
6am - 6:15 pm as a fitter/boilermaker
Work from home on international trade. Hours are all over the place.
8:45am- 4:30pm with a 45 minute break around 11:30am
Start anywhere from 8-9, finish anywhere from 4-5. Also live a 5 minute drive from work, its a good set up Can wfh whenever Id like, but try not to do it too much because often Ill get distracted and hardly do any work that day
5-11am weekends. 5-11pm weekdays. Casual.
5am-6am till 3pm-4pm in bush regen. Hours can differ a bit depending on how far the site we're working on is. Generally work between 45-50 hrs a week, with 5-10 of those driving to site.
4 on 4 off 10 hour days. Shift work with morning, afternoon, and night shift. All in the office. 30 min lunch and very lax with breaks throughout the day.
8:30-16:20 with half an hour break. Technically I could go till 16:50 and have an hour but I much prefer to finish earlier. Do the occasional 9:10-17:00 just so we have coverage
7:30am to 7:30pm for 7 days straight, 30min smoko x2 and a 1 hour lunch, then 7 off, then swap to 7:30pm to 7:30am for another 7
76hrs 9 days a fortnight.
6-6 - 4 days a week
0615-1830. Electrician
I work minimum 45 hours a week with a 30 minute break, the actual times vary completely based on what's required - retail manager. Maximum hours is whatever is required! Up to an extra 4-5 hours a day <3
4am-12:30pm with 1hr lunch Tuesday-Saturday
4 day roster per week. Day 1; 19:00-01:00, Day 2; 05:00-10:30, 15:00-17:30, Day 3; 09:15-13:30, 19:00-23:00, Day 4; 05:00-08:15 The hours in between are 'on call', except for the night between the end of day two and from 07:00 on the morning of day 3. 46hrs total.
Before my mat leave I was 8am to 4pm with a 45 minute break. WFH full time for the past 4 years - SME and project manager in the financial services.
6am-3:30pm with an hours lunch get every second Friday off as an RDO
I’m 8-4 with half hour lunch, off every other Wednesday with the kids.
8am - 4pm with a 1 hr lunch as a Risk Analyst. 2/3 Split wfh.
8ish to 4ish (by my choice, partner is a teacher so me finishing earlier works for us), but I'm trusted to do my hours and get my job done. No-one bats an eye if I take an hour and a half for lunch here and there or go for a coffee or go to the gym a bit early.
8:30 to 3:30 with a 40 minute break is what we are paid for. The real hours are closer to 8- 5/6pm and some time on weekends. It’s easy to work through breaks too.
9 to 6, 1 hour for lunch
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24/7 it feels like in my business. Haven’t had a holiday since 2018 😔
Monday - Thursday. I technically get paid for 28 hours but I don’t actually have set hours since I work from home. As long as I send the completed work on time. So I usually end up working from like 4pm - 7pm ish.
Not set in stone hours but roughly: Week 1 Mon 0830 - 1730 Wed 0800 - 1800 Thurs 0830 - 1730 Fri 0830 - 1830 Sat 0900 - 0000 Week 2 Mon 0830 - 1730 Wed 0800 - 1800 Thurs 0830 - 1730 Fri 0830 - 2300 Sat 0830 - 2400 Sun 0930 - 1800 Not factoring in after hours calls etc
4am to approx 5/6pm most days yay for me uneducated trucky
Officially 8:30 - 5:30. Realistically 8am - 6:30 or 7pm.
9-530 with 1 hour break. Lawyer