Ever since I graduated, everywhere I’ve worked has been 8-5. My current company is going to soon start expecting us to be in 7-5.

How many of you here work a 9-5 with a paid lunch?

Productivity keeps going up but so do working hours.

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    Unless you are salaried. Being salaried normally comes with flexibility but gives no guarantees for breaks and number of hours worked.

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      5 months ago

      That works both ways. If you’re salaried and find yourself averaging more than 40 hours a week (including lunch/breaks), don’t.

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        Sadly 32-40 hour weeks excluding breaks is what you get paid here (NL, Europe)

        So if you get paid 40 hours a week, they expect you to average 45 including breaks. You get paid 40, though.

        It’s really shitty IMO

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      There are two types of salary, exempt and non-exempt (from overtime pay). If I am remembering correctly, you basically have to be management to not get overtime pay. Something like being over at least 2 people and having input on major decisions. May have been more to it.

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        You have to be either management or highly-compensated (which means fuck-all, since the dollar amount tied to it never got updated for inflation). That’s why a lot of non-management tech workers (for example) are salaried exempt, and should therefore walk out whenever they’re told to work more than 40 hours/week (including lunch and breaks).