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Poll: How many hours do you work per week?
10 points by wave on Dec 3, 2011 | hide | past | favorite | 11 comments
How many hours per week do you usually work for your full time day job? Please exclude working for yourself.
40 hrs (I work for startup or small company)
36 points
40 hrs (I work for medium size or big corporations)
34 points
51-60 hrs
26 points
46-50 hrs
19 points
41-45 hrs
18 points
less than 40 hrs
15 points
80+
11 points
71-80 hrs
7 points
61-70 hrs
4 points


You seriously need 30hrs, 20hrs and 10hrs or at least "<40 hrs". If you want a fair average you also need to know who is working less then full time. Otherwise of course you will get the result "Oh, most people work more then full time".


I wasn't able to add additional choice. I clicked on "add choice" and entered additional choice but doesn't show up on the poll. Am I doing something wrong?

edit: I think it didn't like when I entered "<40". Maybe it took it as html code. So I added "less than 40"


35 is my goal, but often, it goes beyond that. Also, for this to have any meaning, you should split into self-employed/employee. I am self-employed, so working more is to my full benefit - so the incentive is high to do it without (time) compensation.

As a side note: I actually consider 40hr-contracts that regularly go beyond that time a breach of contract from the employer side. Sadly, I see a growing sentiment that the hours in the contract are actually seen as a baseline and the hours you work more are seen as some kind of commitment-meter.


So if your full time day job is working for yourself, you should stay out of this poll?


Yes. This is just to see how many hours people work for a company other than for themselves.


I am terribly amused by the lack of a "less than 40 hours" option. I know a lot of people that work part time hours, either in big companies or as contractors. And my full time hours are 35-per-week.


37.5 hours is also the maximum office working time you find in the UK too, 40 hours per week is for factory jobs.


I can confirm 37.5 goes for Finland as well.


I am an Israeli soldier, so I work all day long, waking up at 8am and finish working at 12pm. 16 Hours per day, 5 days a week and more 6 hours of work at Friday, it sums up to 86 hours a week. But still, this is an exceptional situation we have here in Israel, I also get paid only 70$ a month.. (btw, sorry for my poor English)


I contract for 10 to 15 hours a week ... which option do I pick?

Or do I pick the roughly 30 hours a week spent on college stuff? Since that is theoretically my full-time "job".


Where's the option for 20-30?




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