Do 9-5 jobs still exist in the U.S.?

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• sexual_tomato@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Mine is 9-4 some days. I do automated QA for an enterprise application. Management budgets 2 hours a day for lunch and overhead (meetings, emails, chatting, etc.) for each employee. If I don’t hit that then I can get off early.

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• becausechemistry@lemm.ee ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I work a 9ish-to-5ish in a science field, salaried. Nobody really cares when I arrive or when I leave, as long as the work gets done. Sometimes science stuff goes off the rails and I have to arrive early or stay late, but I keep track of my hours and arrive a little early or leave a little early on other days to compensate.

  I mean, it took four years of college and more than six of a PhD to get to this point, which stunk. But now I can monitor my chemicals stirring in a flask for a few minutes while hanging out on my phone, which is nice.

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• Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Officially I work 8 hours of my choice between 7am and 7pm with 30 minutes lunch.

  In practice I work at least 8 hours (most often about 8.5), usually get a lunch, have to be at my desk at 8:30 for standup, and am always on call to some degree. If any of our infrastructure isn’t working then I am, but after hours stuff isn’t all that common.

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• adespoton@lemmy.ca ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I noticed recently that MS Teams allows you to set a workday that defaults to 9 hours. I found that odd, but if most people in the US have a 9 hour day with a 30 min lunchbreak and two 15 minute other breaks, I guess it makes sense?

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  • OhNoMoreLemmy@lemmy.ml ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Teams defaults are pure scummery.

    No, don’t alert me on a Sunday night with notifications that I might have missed over the last two days.

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  • Jakeroxs@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    This, but the thing is it used to be 8 hours total including the hour or so lunch, 9-5 right, and now its 8 hours of literal work with three smaller breaks, an extra hour of work a day still.

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    • adespoton@lemmy.ca ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Where I live there’s a mandated 30 minute unpaid lunch break and two paid 15 minute breaks for any workday of 8 hours or more. So that’s an 8.5 hour day unless lunch is longer.

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• zik@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Expected work hours seem to be increasing everywhere over the last twenty years or so. It’s gotten pretty nuts.

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• SacredHeartAttack@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I just signed an offer for a 8am-4pm job, so I guess they do but it’s been a long while since I’ve had a job with those hours.

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• Maggoty@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Sure. If you graduated from Harvard with a business degree and have the connections to walk straight into a board room. Everyone else works 7-5 with a 30 minute lunch you’re expected to eat at your desk. Also PTO is a trap and IT can’t fix your printer because they’re still working on the other printer.

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• bitchkat@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  My old job was oppressive clock watchers so everyone just strolled in as close to 8am as they could and left at 5pm sharp (people would be lined up at the turnstiles waiting to badge out). So why are they having you there for 10 hours a day? I’d rather come in an hour later than get a 2 hour lunch.

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• rab@lemmy.ca ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Where I’m at in Canada it’s almost always 8:30 to 4:30

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• NewWorldOverHere@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  9-5 never made any sense to me.

  I thought working 40 hours was the standard, but 9-5 with a paid lunch is less than 40 hours. So, the math never made sense.

  The only place I heard of people working 9 to 5 was in Dolly Parton’s song. I’m enjoying reading everyone’s answers though, and I’m hoping someone chimes in that has actually worked a 9-5.

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  • Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Might wanna check your math. 9-5 is eight hours. The paid lunch would be one of those hours. 8x5=40.

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    • xmunk@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Unfortunately a lot of employers expect eight effective working hours a day so you’ll see a lot of people working 9-5:30 and stuffing a Sammy down their gullet in their ten minutes of freedom in the middle of the day.

      We’re guaranteed the ability to take a lunch break without retribution but it being paid or unpaid is less of a guarantee - especially if you’re salaried (aka hourly but not paid overtime).

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• SuiXi3D@fedia.io ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I work 8:00 to 4:30 with a half-hour lunch break. Frequently I’ll put in a few extra hours in a week for some overtime ‘cause the job isn’t hard at all.

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• BrerChicken@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  8:30-3:00 baby, though honestly 3:45 or 4:00 would be better. I get 40 minutes for lunch and 90 minutes alone without students. I’ve got it nice.

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• ResoluteCatnap@lemmy.ml ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  My work agreement is supposed to be 8-5 with hour lunch. I work 9-5 our 8-4 and eat at my desk when i can. But i do have mandatory overtime which sometimes makes it 7am-9pm. Fun times

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• HubertManne@kbin.social ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Never had a paid lunch

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• criticon@lemmy.ca ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I’ve been working 9-5 and taking 1 hour for lunch for the last 6 years but recently I saw my job description and it says 9-6 (with 1 hour lunch) so 🤷

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• bionicjoey@lemmy.ca ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I work 9-5 with a paid lunch.

  But I am in Canada (which is fairly similar to the US in terms of work culture.

  Also I’m unionized.

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• GiddyGap@lemm.ee ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I’m 7-3. I eat lunch at my desk while I work so I can leave early.

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• nifty@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Many research jobs are like that

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• Feathercrown@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I have one actually. I’m in NH if that’s relevant.

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  • ECB@feddit.de ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I’m going to guess you mean New Hampshire in the USA?

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    • Feathercrown@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Well, yes, the question said “in the USA” so I didn’t think I’d have to specify but I should probably still have use ld the full name for people who don’t live here.

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• LaunchesKayaks@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  My last job was 9-5 with a paid lunch. It was toxic AF tho

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• Fluba@lemdro.id ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I’m at a non-profit and we work 9-5 with, technically, a 30 minute lunch break. So when we take a PTO day, it is 7.5 hours instead of 8. I’m remote though, so I just work through lunch or take that time to cook something.

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• whoreticulture@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Most of my jobs have been 9-5. I work as an ecologist. I’ve also always been hourly, so that’s why my hours are not so broad.

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• Neuromancer49@midwest.social ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  My job is 8:30 - 5 with a 30 minute lunch break. So almost.

  But, we also get 2 days/week at home, and can flex time as required. Tons of international work, so the flexible hours are a godsend when time zones are against us.

  It’s a salaried position and depending on your supervisor and stage of your career, you’re expected to work 40-45 hours a week. Deadlines and ugly projects tend to increase hours work. I’m very lucky, as my industry can be pretty brutal with sudden ends to projects and unexpected layoffs.

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• MissJinx@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I’m not american but here the norm is 9-6. But we do have 1 hour paid lunch by law.

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• Neato@ttrpg.network ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Yes, they still exist. I am both salaried and clock my hours. I have to clock 80/2 weeks and I need approval to clock more than that. If I do, I get comp time or overtime if pre-approved. Including for traveling for work. I don’t clock my actual times, just hours worked per day. So no annoying 15min accountability that I’ve heard of from other companies. I think I technically have to take a 30min lunch but I haven’t heard noises about that for like, a decade. We’ve got hours we need to be available technically as well (9-3). I’m also 80% telework and I despise that 1 day a week I sit on the same Teams calls in the office.

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• PerogiBoi@lemmy.ca ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I thought 9-5 was an old trope. I’ve never heard of anywhere that offered 9-5 working hours. I don’t know anyone with them.

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• RBWells@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  It’s been 8-5 or 8:30-5:30 or 9-6 everywhere I’ve worked an office job. But I had a friend move to NYC and she said there everyone worked hard but came in at 9, took an hour lunch and left at 5.

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• bran_buckler@kbin.social ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  For the last 20 years, I’ve worked in smaller tech start ups (~10-50 people) and one larger more corporate tech place (~300 people), and they’ve all been salaried, 9-5. Since they're salaried, it’s a paid lunch period.

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• DontMakeMoreBabies@kbin.social ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  8-430 and I get an hour for lunch. Works out to a 7.5 hour workday.

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• Alenalda@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Most of the year I work 8 to 6-8 few months in the winter its 8-430. With a forced 30min unpaid lunch.

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