40-hour weeks (was Re: FWD: Lack...)

[Gordon McLean]

Completely agree. But with a twist.

I am physically in the office from 7.30 am to anytime between 4 and 6 (later
for OT blah blah).

However I'll spend anywhere between 2 and 3 hours a night on my computer at
home.

I spread my work over that physical time, meaning that I don't do ALL my
'work' work in the office, and that I don't do all my 'home' work at home.
My employer is flexible enough to realise (and is learning that) if I say I
will hit a deadline, I will. That puts the onus on ME to manage MY time and
allows ME to manage my work/life balance. 

(and yes I'm pulling in two threads here, sorry was away yesterday) 

Gordon 

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Subject: Re: 40-hour weeks (was Re: FWD: Lack...)

I think it also assumes that when "Anonymous" said the rest of the team
"works" 45 hour weeks he/she actually meant hours of work and not just hours
spent on the premises.  In just about every company I've ever worked we've
managed projects on the basis of everyone involved doing a 40 hour week, but
it's been 20 years since I worked anyplace where people were actually
expected to arrive at the office at a specific time and keep their noses to
the grindstone for exactly eight hours plus the government-mandated 30
minute lunch and other breaks until "quitting time" rolled along.  Between
flextime, lunches out, morning coffee klatches, wandering in and out of the
break room to score leftovers from the customer meeting trays and checking
our personal email and active eBay items, I would guess that my average day
from morning start to evening shutdown over the years has been somewhere in
the neighborhood of 8.5-9.5 hours daily, but actual hands-on working time
hardly ever more than 8.  I think most of us spend more time at the office
than we used to in the "old days" because we're finding that it's easier to
do some things there that working people used to do at home.

Gene Kim-Eng



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