I think 40-45 hours a week is "normal" for your average employee. Now there are definitely exceptions with a very highly motivated crew or a particularly exciting project where people actually WANT to work longer hours.
There are also exceptions in the other direction (mainly corporate drones and govt employees), where people arrive at 9:00 and leave at 4:49, making sure they bring their stopwatch to lunch and their 2 approved smoke breaks. Most though, fit somewhere in between and 40-45 hours is pretty standard there, though the exact times people come in and leave are totally up the organization. IMHO - asking about work environment, work hours, and salary are all questions that should be asked up front in an interview just to make sure no-one's wasting any time and you aren't going to end up hating your working situation. Looks like you are asking because your employer is asking you to change your schedule around. It doesn't seem unreasonable at all to expect 8 hours a day from you - but I REALLY hate it when people treat me like a Burger King employee who needs to clock I and out and count every minute. That type of treatment DOES turn your employees into govt quality clockwatchers. -Cameron On 6/12/07, Jim Davis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > So in your opinion/experience what are "normal working hours" (for salaried > folks): > > 1) Nine-to-Five (what a way to make a living). > > 2) Nine-to-Six (because your lunch hour isn't working and you need eight > hours of work in a day). > > Just curious. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Deploy Web Applications Quickly across the enterprise with ColdFusion MX7 & Flex 2 Free Trial http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion/flex2/?sdid=RVJU Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:236602 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5
