I work from 8:30 to 16:00 with a half-hour lunch break, so 7 work hours per day.
It's paid as a full-time job.
If I collect too much over-time, I get a stern talking-to from my supervisor, who could otherwise get in trouble with the works council and the owners (cause they'd get in trouble with the union and the law). So I make sure to go home on time.
I have 42 days of paid time off I HAVE to take, plus unlimited sick days.

I could have made 50% more by chosing a different employer, and 3-4x as much in the US.
But why the hell would I? I'm able to save up 1/3 of my take-home pay as it is, and that's after pension and healthcare are accounted for.

I'm at the office between 9 and 5

Drop a deuce at 10. Work gets done 10:30 to 12:30, take lunch, then fuck around pretending to work til 5

From what I've heard 9-5 was a thing before employees were given a mandatory 1 hour lunch break which was counted as non-work time. So basically the work schedule was shifted to account for break time no longer being counted as part of the work day.

Of course I've never looked into it, so there's a good chance it's not that :p

Most corpo drones show up for those hours but very few of them work that long.

These gals do.

No. Companies have stolen 2 extra hours from us. They used to include a paid lunch hour in those 8 hours. Now, it's not only 8-5, but we don't get paid for the lunch hour.

I attend a place of work from 0700 to 1600.

Do I work in that time?

Yeah, why not...

I currently work 8:00 to 16:00 and no one has complained about my working hours yet. But, I'm a software dev working remote with coworkers in several different timezones, so the exact time I start and end my day really doesn't matter.

At a previous job I worked 9:00 - 15:00 for several months when I was depressed and no one complained about that either. 🤷

I worked IT for a community college. 8 - 4:30 Monday through Friday. If they'd asked me for any OT, my union president would eat nails and shit rust.

Retired now.

Software dev in Spain.

On paper it is 9:00 to 17:00, but we have flexibility to enter and leave.

In practice we do 9 hours Monday-Thursday and 6 on Friday.

8 hours + 30 min for lunch + 30 min to leave early on Friday.

I do 8:00 to 17:00 and 8:00 to 14:00.

This is not in all companies, my previous employer was like that, but I have friends on other companies for the same sector that do 9:00 to 18:00 every day, with one hour mandated for lunch.

Where are you all located. I'm in Canada. I work 8-4 or 9-5 depending. I have flexibility to choose.

All but one of my jobs (excluding hourly jobs as a teen) have been 9-5, the one that wasn’t was 9-6 with the justification that we had a 1 hour lunch in the middle… but like… I’ve taken a 1 hour lunch at every job… so I have no idea why that company was such a stickler for that. Basically no one did shit after like 4pm anyways

I believe in wresting back any amount of control/time we can from the system.

So my job has me coming in at 8:30-9:30am and leaving at 3:30pm every day, thanks to training my boss and working the system.

And honestly I am switching to a hybrid WFH job because even this is too much office time.

They don't give me a window, so I am letting myself get recruited elsewhere.

junior software developer in Europe, my work hours are 9-5, with an hour for lunch. In reality I work a bit shorter hours because the daily's at 10, and nobody really cares how many breaks I take as long as I get the work done

I used to as my company was fine with me being at lunch from 5-6. Some governments don't allow that (it's technically not legal in Japan), but some also look the other way (not my current company, sadly)

All of my jobs have been 9-5, lunch included. I think the key is whether you’re paid hourly or by salary. I’ve almost exclusively worked at tech startups as a salaried employee.

9-5 is a simple representation of an 8 hr work day. It’s not meant to be taken literally.

Strict working hours are important for jobs like assembly line work where if you are not at your station nobody else can do any work. Often they do build enough slack in that they expect you can take a couple bites here and there between doing your work. Though this isn't the most sanitary so it isn't common anymore.

For anyone doing work that doesn't depend on others being at their station at the same time a strict shift doesn't make sense, and there are not many assembly lines left like that (the assembly lines I have seen lately are much shorter and your team of 10 needs to work the same shift but your team can choose lunch time, and if you get the team's work done faster everyone can even get an extended lunch.

Yes, I work 9 to 5

It would be interesting to see a filter of responses by country.

In my experience:

• Architecture / Eng / Construction Industry (Canada):
  • 8-5, summer hours, loosely enforced.
• Software Industry (Europe):
  • 9-5, several extra weeks of vacation, loosely enforced
• Software Industry (America):
  • 9-6, moderately enforced
• Software Industry (Canada):
  • 9-5, summer hours, loosely enforced

That being said, even with the shorter official working hours, I often end up working more than that. I may have a bunch of 6 or 7 hour days, but will also have a bunch of 16 hour days when things are hectic.

Kind-of. Researcher in EU, the funding source on paper mandates 7.6 hrs of work per day, so with lunch breaks it is almost exactly 09:00 - 17:00

Depending on whom you ask academia may or may not be considered a real job though... and my hours may be nice, but the folks who do experiments rarely get the 9-5 as stated on paper, and there are other aspects of the job that are much more fucked up

I do now, and I was similarly disappointed at the realization that this is not common when I got my first office job

Yes, I do.

Officially I’m 9-5 with an hour for lunch.

I do a “07:45 or so till 15:30 when I fall asleep at the desk until 16:30” recently.

I usually cut out around 430

If I wanted to I could do 9h to 17h, but 8h45 to 16h45 fits better with my commute, so I go with that.

I work 7:30 - 15:30. I hate waking up so early but it is nice to have time to run errands.

I have worked 9 to 5 in every office job I've had (salaried). Including lunch.

I work 8:30 to 18:00 with a forced 1 hour break in-betweem

Not in the US, 38-40 hour weeks are realistic in eg. Germany.

In France it's more like 9 to 6 with one hour to eat, and no paid overtime. We're fucked.

In the technology department for a fortune 500, we should be 9-5 and another team next to me is basically doing that but I'm somehow overloaded and having to do catch up at night or be on call. Also we do our deployments at night as to not disrupt operations, so that eats into my personal time.

Kinda annoyed at it since my last job I stopped thinking about work once 5pm hit

One of the jobs I had was 9am to 5pm for about a year. For me, that was practically heaven because prior to that it had been 9am to 6pm for a few years, and the shorter hours didn't come with a pay cut.

It got weird later because I took on a rotating shift pattern and more responsibility, but some of the day shifts were still 9 till 5.

Then I jumped ship to a different company that had 9am to 6pm again, but that turned out to be preferable to the hell of not being able to sleep properly.

software dev - I'm 8-5ish but the end is very flexible.

my morning is usually me waking myself up and remembering what I'm doing till 8:45, then we have a company wide and a dev team standup. then they let us loose to do what we need to do. if I run out of shit to do, I leave. sometimes I'm out by 3pm, but if there's plenty to do and my wife is working late I'm often there till 6.

so 9-5, no, but 8-4ish, which is still the same 8 hours I guess. I don't know any devs that start at 9am around here, 8 seems to be standard for some reason I can't fathom.