Whatever happened to the 8 hour work day? (employees, unemployment, employer)
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I had a job directly out of college that paid 40 hours a week (salary based on an hourly rate), but you would be hard-pressed to find anyone in the entire company that worked less than 10 hours a day and some weekends.
My current job is a bit bigger on work-life balance, but everyone is still at the office about 9.5 hours a day or so except the HR people. I work about 9-9.5 hours a day working through lunch so as to shorten my work day by a precious half hour.
So whatever happened to the 8 hour work day? Do any of you still have the privilege of working 40 hours a week? What is your opinion on the current work climate? Is it wrong for companies to be getting 5-10 "free" hours out of employees every week, or is there something to be said for working hard and getting the job done regardless of conditions? Will a full time job ever be 40 hours/week again, or are we spiraling toward a 60 hour standard work week?
I had a job directly out of college that paid 40 hours a week (salary based on an hourly rate), but you would be hard-pressed to find anyone in the entire company that worked less than 10 hours a day and some weekends.
My current job is a bit bigger on work-life balance, but everyone is still at the office about 9.5 hours a day or so except the HR people. I work about 9-9.5 hours a day working through lunch so as to shorten my work day by a precious half hour.
So whatever happened to the 8 hour work day? Do any of you still have the privilege of working 40 hours a week? What is your opinion on the current work climate? Is it wrong for companies to be getting 5-10 "free" hours out of employees every week, or is there something to be said for working hard and getting the job done regardless of conditions? Will a full time job ever be 40 hours/week again, or are we spiraling toward a 60 hour standard work week?
Life is too short for unpaid overtime.
Most people I work with do nine hours a day but they are on a 9/80 schedule.
Even 8 hours a day is too long for me. 9-5 no thanks, rather have a life than waste a third of it in some enclosed space or stuffy building at some corporation and being watched over by some tedious "director" or "manager" busy bodying about the place and hearing all the tedious gossip and etcetera (can't think of how to end this sentence basically yeahhhh)
I work 8 to 4:30 with a half hour lunch break. That is a 40 hour work week. We are not allowed overtime. My wife works in Nursing at the same hospital that I work at and works 3 - 12 hour shifts. She can work as much overtime as she wants. This week she has worked Sunday, Monday, Tuesday 7pm - 7am and she will work tonight from 7pm till 11pm. She then will work Friday 7pm till 7am. If I could I would work overtime. My department doesn't allow it for now. Once we start building our new hospital then I will have lots of overtime.
It's why you go on salary instead of hourly. Salaried employees are expected to work longer hours. There is also worldwide competition, which is ever increasing, and the time zones have a lot to do with some jobs.
They're still there but not as good as they used to be.
My last employer gave us a free 100% Blue Cross PPO. Only thing we paid were the $15 copays (for any doctor including specialists at UCLA or Cedars) and the deductible (0.6% or $600 whichever is more).
That eventually changed to $50 per biweekly paycheck ($1300/year).
Then I left the company.
My new company is an 80/20 PPO (might be a 90/10 I forgot) and I pay $5500/year from paychecks, $30 copay and $40 copay for specialists along with the deductible (0.6% or $600 whichever is more).
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I work about 9-9.5 hours a day working through lunch so as to shorten my work day by a precious half hour.
