No Stupid Questions

I attend a place of work from 0700 to 1600.

Do I work in that time?

Yeah, why not...

I'm at the office between 9 and 5

Drop a deuce at 10. Work gets done 10:30 to 12:30, take lunch, then fuck around pretending to work til 5

Software dev in Spain.

On paper it is 9:00 to 17:00, but we have flexibility to enter and leave.

In practice we do 9 hours Monday-Thursday and 6 on Friday.

8 hours + 30 min for lunch + 30 min to leave early on Friday.

I do 8:00 to 17:00 and 8:00 to 14:00.

This is not in all companies, my previous employer was like that, but I have friends on other companies for the same sector that do 9:00 to 18:00 every day, with one hour mandated for lunch.

I work for like 3 chosen hours per day. I often take naps

I work 8:30 to 18:00 with a forced 1 hour break in-betweem

Not in the US, 38-40 hour weeks are realistic in eg. Germany.

Roughly. It's slightly offset later than that because I start late, though. Official work week here is 35h, which is usually more like 38h (with extra time provided as extra leave days).

Kind-of. Researcher in EU, the funding source on paper mandates 7.6 hrs of work per day, so with lunch breaks it is almost exactly 09:00 - 17:00

Depending on whom you ask academia may or may not be considered a real job though... and my hours may be nice, but the folks who do experiments rarely get the 9-5 as stated on paper, and there are other aspects of the job that are much more fucked up

I'm contracted to do 7.3 hours per day, and when I started my manager let me choose what time I start. So I do 10:00 to 18:00 with a 0.7 hour lunch break.

In France it's more like 9 to 6 with one hour to eat, and no paid overtime. We're fucked.

I usually cut out around 430

I work from 8:30 to 16:00 with a half-hour lunch break, so 7 work hours per day.
It's paid as a full-time job.
If I collect too much over-time, I get a stern talking-to from my supervisor, who could otherwise get in trouble with the works council and the owners (cause they'd get in trouble with the union and the law). So I make sure to go home on time.
I have 42 days of paid time off I HAVE to take, plus unlimited sick days.

I could have made 50% more by chosing a different employer, and 3-4x as much in the US.
But why the hell would I? I'm able to save up 1/3 of my take-home pay as it is, and that's after pension and healthcare are accounted for.

If I wanted to I could do 9h to 17h, but 8h45 to 16h45 fits better with my commute, so I go with that.

So this gets back to why I point to the 70's as sorta being the height of things. Both the song and the movie 9 to 5 was based around how poor shlubs had to work 8 hours a day, 5 days a week, with barely enough to get by on including you know going out every week. Anyway I am unsure if anyone does it now but I know as recently as the 90's if you worked for certain old school businesses like banking you could actually have a job that was 9 to 5 and you got a lunch that was compensated. Get this. It was often an hour. So you worked 7 hours a day and got paid for 8.

I work about 9:30 to something between 17:00 and 18:00

No. Companies have stolen 2 extra hours from us. They used to include a paid lunch hour in those 8 hours. Now, it's not only 8-5, but we don't get paid for the lunch hour.

junior software developer in Europe, my work hours are 9-5, with an hour for lunch. In reality I work a bit shorter hours because the daily's at 10, and nobody really cares how many breaks I take as long as I get the work done

From what I've heard 9-5 was a thing before employees were given a mandatory 1 hour lunch break which was counted as non-work time. So basically the work schedule was shifted to account for break time no longer being counted as part of the work day.

Of course I've never looked into it, so there's a good chance it's not that :p

These gals do.

In the technology department for a fortune 500, we should be 9-5 and another team next to me is basically doing that but I'm somehow overloaded and having to do catch up at night or be on call. Also we do our deployments at night as to not disrupt operations, so that eats into my personal time.

Kinda annoyed at it since my last job I stopped thinking about work once 5pm hit

I currently work 8:00 to 16:00 and no one has complained about my working hours yet. But, I'm a software dev working remote with coworkers in several different timezones, so the exact time I start and end my day really doesn't matter.

At a previous job I worked 9:00 - 15:00 for several months when I was depressed and no one complained about that either. 🤷

Yes, I do.

Officially I’m 9-5 with an hour for lunch.

I believe in wresting back any amount of control/time we can from the system.

So my job has me coming in at 8:30-9:30am and leaving at 3:30pm every day, thanks to training my boss and working the system.

And honestly I am switching to a hybrid WFH job because even this is too much office time.

They don't give me a window, so I am letting myself get recruited elsewhere.

All but one of my jobs (excluding hourly jobs as a teen) have been 9-5, the one that wasn’t was 9-6 with the justification that we had a 1 hour lunch in the middle… but like… I’ve taken a 1 hour lunch at every job… so I have no idea why that company was such a stickler for that. Basically no one did shit after like 4pm anyways

In America yes, but often you work much later, like til 7pm.

I miss my time in Europe where I worked 9-12, took a 3 hour lunch break and nap, then worked two more hours from 3 to 5, and then go home. Very easy life.

I work 7:30 - 15:30. I hate waking up so early but it is nice to have time to run errands.

It would be interesting to see a filter of responses by country.

In my experience:

• Architecture / Eng / Construction Industry (Canada):
  • 8-5, summer hours, loosely enforced.
• Software Industry (Europe):
  • 9-5, several extra weeks of vacation, loosely enforced
• Software Industry (America):
  • 9-6, moderately enforced
• Software Industry (Canada):
  • 9-5, summer hours, loosely enforced

Strict working hours are important for jobs like assembly line work where if you are not at your station nobody else can do any work. Often they do build enough slack in that they expect you can take a couple bites here and there between doing your work. Though this isn't the most sanitary so it isn't common anymore.

For anyone doing work that doesn't depend on others being at their station at the same time a strict shift doesn't make sense, and there are not many assembly lines left like that (the assembly lines I have seen lately are much shorter and your team of 10 needs to work the same shift but your team can choose lunch time, and if you get the team's work done faster everyone can even get an extended lunch.

All of my jobs have been 9-5, lunch included. I think the key is whether you’re paid hourly or by salary. I’ve almost exclusively worked at tech startups as a salaried employee.

Yes, I work 9 to 5

I have not found one. If I come in at 9, leave at 18, or 18:30, if I come in at 8, same. So I come in at 9.

But in general here it's a 9 hour day with an hour break for lunch, that makes the 8 hour workday.

One of the jobs I had was 9am to 5pm for about a year. For me, that was practically heaven because prior to that it had been 9am to 6pm for a few years, and the shorter hours didn't come with a pay cut.

It got weird later because I took on a rotating shift pattern and more responsibility, but some of the day shifts were still 9 till 5.

Then I jumped ship to a different company that had 9am to 6pm again, but that turned out to be preferable to the hell of not being able to sleep properly.

In the Netherlands: blue collar mostly 7:30 - 16:00, white collar half an hour or an hour later.

Yes. I do. Dealership mechanic. 9-5

I could come in an hour late and skip lunch break to make it 9-to-5.

Usually 8am to 5 30 or 6pm for me.

We are supposed to record 9 hours of work on our timesheet daily. Sometimes there isnt enough work but then you just do goals or organize shit or read some how to's. I hate those days. I like being busy.

It is long days though. A 6 hour day would be fantastic but I'd get nothing done. Today, I spent 4 hours opening a program on several different remote PCs because it kept crashing.

I work a 9-5 office job in the USA but it’s seasonal and there are people who work different hours so that the office can stay open til 7