Normal working hours in Phoenix: 9-5? Or 8-5?

[Ritchie_az]

I wished I worked a "normal" work schedule. At least I don't deal with much traffic....

[crazysheli]

Not sure about other professions, or even other schools, but as teachers our official day is 7:30-4:00. We are lucky in that we live in Phoenix and drive west in the am and east in the pm avoiding much of the traffic.

[Zathras]

I am attempting to keep an early schedule so I can be in synch with our IT dept at our HQ in Ohio. When I was there I worked 8-5 most of the year. Here I'm working 6:30-3:30, which isn't exactly the same, but it gets enough overlap for what I need.

[TootsieWootsie]

Originally Posted by azriverfan.

Chicago is not 9-5. Like most large metropolitan urban cities, Chicago is more like 7 AM to 6 PM. The west coast is different and known to be relaxed. The work hours in Phoenix honestly seem like 9-4. I'm not joking. It seems like there is more traffic at 3:30 than 6. There seems to be more traffic at 8 AM than 7 AM.

I have to disagree with you on this. I worked for 16 years in Chicago, and everywhere I worked was 9-5. But I worked in offices downtown in the Loop, so maybe you are in a different situation?

Chicago and Houston start having afternoon rush hour around 3-3:30 pm like Phoenix, but Phoenix is definitely an earlier schedule in the a.m. Traffic clears by 9 am? Fantastic!!!!

[KaLyn0608]

I think it varies, depending on the line of work you're in. My husband works 7pm-5am, so he never has to sit in a parking lot on the freeway.

[7 Wishes]

Originally Posted by KaLyn0608

I think it varies, depending on the line of work you're in. My husband works 7pm-5am, so he never has to sit in a parking lot on the freeway.

Originally Posted by azriverfan.

Chicago is not 9-5. Like most large metropolitan urban cities, Chicago is more like 7 AM to 6 PM. The west coast is different and known to be relaxed. The work hours in Phoenix honestly seem like 9-4. I'm not joking. It seems like there is more traffic at 3:30 than 6. There seems to be more traffic at 8 AM than 7 AM.

Sadly, especially in large urban centers, most people work 10 hours/day or more (and sometimes more than 5 days/week), often with no extra pay because they're "salaried" and being taken advantage of. More so than Chicago, this is especially true in the big East Coast cities. While the west coast is more relaxed, you see some of this "workaholic culture" in L.A. and San Francisco (as well as adjacent "Silicon Valley"), though they tend to keep earlier (but not much shorter) hours to deal with the time zone difference of east coast clients.

Originally Posted by crazysheli

Not sure about other professions, or even other schools, but as teachers our official day is 7:30-4:00. We are lucky in that we live in Phoenix and drive west in the am and east in the pm avoiding much of the traffic.

Here on the east coast, I was at a temporary teaching job last year with similar hours and driving from NY to CT I had a similar advantage (the other direction is the East Coast's version of an LA freeway, LOL!)

[TootsieWootsie]

Ooooooh, I'll bet areas where jobs are more scarce now have bosses jumping up and down for joy, 'cause they KNOW the employees NEED these jobs. I can see why people are working more hours than before during this Recession downturn in the economy.

'Course, I always worked 10-14 hours a day, but I owned the business and, well, can't make money if no workee. But the economy was good then in Texas, and I can just imagine how my employees would have reacted if I asked them to work 10-14 hours with no extra pay...that would have been a good laugh.

This economy will be a real eyeopening growth experience for those who thought life would be a skate-through.