You always hear the phase “9 to 5” and also the song with the same name. Assuming you include 1 hour worth of breaks (30 minute lunch and two 15 minute breaks), you’re only working for 7 hours a day which comes up to 35 hours a week.
Now it feels like you have to work 8 hours a day (for a total of 40 hours of actual work), plus your other time off meaning you’re really there for 9 hours each day (for a total of 45 hours). Am i looking at that wrong, or did expected times change, and if so, when?
weariedfae@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Everything changed. You’re not crazy. If you watch movies made before the 2000s about office culture, including the movie 9 to 5, you can see that the hours included a lunch break. Which was paid.
Yes, those of the older generation had it easier in every way.
Diddlydee@feddit.uk 2 months ago
Is this a US thing? Do you not get paid for your lunch hour? That’s wild.
Letstakealook@lemm.ee 2 months ago
Most people don’t. So, for an average employee, it would be 9-530 to account for their unpaid 30m lunch required by law.
gdog05@lemmy.world 2 months ago
In the US, you’re lucky if you get paid for the hours you work. And many don’t get all of their hours paid.
otp@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
I live in Canada. We get a half-hour lunch that isn’t paid in my province.
Also, if you take more than 3 sick days a year, your boss can fire you. And the 3 sick days are unpaid. The government lowered the number from 10 to 3 shortly before the pandemic, and didn’t raise it again! Oh, and to count, your boss can demand a doctor’s note. Which cost money to the patient.
benni@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Same in Germany, I think this common in many countries, no?
amelia@feddit.org 2 months ago
Where do you get paid for your lunch hour? I’m in Germany and while work life balance is certainly a thing here, more so than in the US, a paid lunch break is something I have never heard about.
Riven@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
Depends on the state, in my state you legally have to get paid for 30 minute lunches but not hour long lunches. No idea why but because of this most office jobs will give you an hour lunch in addition to your mandated 2, 10 minute breaks.
Honestly I would love to just take a 30 minute break and get out earlier. It’s not even about the money.
Kazumara@discuss.tchncs.de 2 months ago
You get paid for lunch? Where is that? We don’t either in Switzerland
ShepherdPie@midwest.social 2 months ago
Typically no but my current employer pays us for 1/2 of our 1 hour lunch.
calcopiritus@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Spaniard here. Not only does my company not pay me for lunch time. It also demands it to be at least 30 minutes long. How is it even legal to force my unpaid time to be a minimum amount?
GissaMittJobb@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
For the record, lunch time is not considered paid time in Sweden either.
ArgentRaven@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Those old tv shows where they casually eat breakfast before work make more sense. They weren’t up at 6, rushing to get to work by 8. They had a whole hour more.
otp@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
They also had someone to make it for them. One income was enough for the household.