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Re: Ask HN: Typical work hours

#31
I work at a Post Series B startup (so really medium size tech company). I typically work about 9:00am-6:30pm, with a decent break in the middle for lunch. Fridays are usually shorter.

This is busy season for us, in the winter, I'd probably leave around 5:30 instead of 6:30.

Re: Ask HN: Typical work hours

#33
I worked strict 8-4 with an hour paid lunch at my last job (so 35 hours ass in chair time). The office was generally empty around 4:30

Now I generally get close to 40 hours in a week, but rarely hit it. Hours are very flexible (today I'm in at 6am, yesterday 9).

Both jobs were smaller companies (<50) in Vancouver, Canada.

Re: Ask HN: Typical work hours

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8:30-5 (I leave a bit early to beat traffic. Sometimes if I can't sleep I'll VPN in to work and do some code janitor tasks. A few times a year my work load gets heavy enough that I'll work extra at night or very early to get through it, but that's not my normal routine. My lunch is anywhere from 0 to 90 minutes but I probably average about 30 minutes. During the day I'll sometimes go for a 30 minute walk. I keep a gu…

Presumably you have your own office, or do your work colleagues enjoy the impromptu performance?

Yeah, we each have an office with a door. My guitar is an electric that I either play through headphones or unamplified. Plus, I'm often just playing scales or something.

Re: Ask HN: Typical work hours

#37
I come in at varying times but officially I work 7.5 hrs a day with an unpaid lunch. Usually I come in ~10am and leave ~6pm. If something is broken on weekends or nights though I am fixing it, and when there is a large time sensitive project I will work more hours from time to time.

Re: Ask HN: Typical work hours

#38
When I was working for Google in MTV, I would get to the office around 6am and leave around 3:30pm. I worked early hours to avoid the chaos of the open office. I had ~3 hours of good concentration until most people arrived & the distractions started. As a bonus, I got to pick up my son from elementary school and spend quality time with him. I would often answer email in the evenings. So I ended up working ~9-10 hours a day.

Now that I work from home (for a different company), I probably work roughly 60 hrs per week. But my time is much more flexible, I typically work 8am->5pm most days, with one or two evenings of actual work (not just answering email) from 9pm to 1am, and often a few hours on the weekends. But somewhere in those 8-5 hours, I'll often take my son to school or pick him up, or take him to an athletic practice, or help him with homework, or have lunch with my wife, etc.

Given that my office is steps away, the line between home and work blurs. I find that it is hard to resist checking on things almost obsessively, and I often go into my office intending to just spend 2 minutes check the progress of something only to emerge 3 hours later.

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