Weird, I came to work once at Twitter at 9am and I was the only one in sight on the whole floor.
I need to work at Twitter. I am a complete night owl and always push the limits of acceptable lateness at my corporate programming job.
Who's in the Office? The American Workday in One Graph
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#22Why is there a peak at 3 am for legal? It looks like an statistical error to me, unless it has something to do with conference calls and people starting their workday in Europe.
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#23Weird, I came to work once at Twitter at 9am and I was the only one in sight on the whole floor.
I used to come in at 7am to beat traffic at my startup. There would only be a handful of people until everyone else started rolling in around 10. After acquisition by IBM basically everyone is there at 9 for a stand up and now I come in later when I do go in.
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#24I expected to see more night owls in the "Computer and mathematical" category, but it looks like we're more conventional than the average.
The American Time Use Survey only measures "paid work" which I assume excludes personal projects and most "night owl" activity other than being in operations/on call or having a particularly bad job.
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#25Do 9-5 jobs with paid lunch exist? Everything I've seen is either 8-5 or 9-6 or some variation of that. Heck, where I am now is 9 hour days plus they encourage you to take lunch, 7-5. Half-day Friday though.
They (kinda) exist in Finland, as lunch is unpaid, but the workday is 7.5 hours and the workweek is 37.50 hours. Lunch is often optional, but a typical workday can be from 9 to 5 with a 30 minute lunch break. There can also be two ~10min "coffee" breaks in addition to the lunch break but they typically matter only in non-software development work environments..
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#26hmm. "computer" is grouped with "mathematical" jobs. And these people are less likely to come in early and less likely to stay late. Seems reasonable...
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#27I expected to see more night owls in the "Computer and mathematical" category, but it looks like we're more conventional than the average.
IT professionals (as a group) aren't really any different than any other group of workers.
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#28Do 9-5 jobs with paid lunch exist? Everything I've seen is either 8-5 or 9-6 or some variation of that. Heck, where I am now is 9 hour days plus they encourage you to take lunch, 7-5. Half-day Friday though.
Depends on the country. They are very common outside of the U.S., but seemingly a lot less common in the U.S..
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#29I expected to see more night owls in the "Computer and mathematical" category, but it looks like we're more conventional than the average.
IT professionals (as a group) aren't really any different than any other group of workers.
Professional "exempt" workers I think you meant to say it will be quite different to a shift worker on the line at Ford or GM
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#30Do 9-5 jobs with paid lunch exist? Everything I've seen is either 8-5 or 9-6 or some variation of that. Heck, where I am now is 9 hour days plus they encourage you to take lunch, 7-5. Half-day Friday though.
One of the things that marks a "salaried" job out from hourly paid is that there are normally no fixed hours - unfortunately a lot of employers do not seem to understand this.