Working hours

benjymous

We've got flexitime here, so

Earliest start: 8am
Latest start: 10am
Earliest finish: 4pm
Latest finish: 7pm (unless there's overtime)
Lunch can be taken at any time between 12-2 (30 mins to two hours)
You have to do 6 hours in the day
You have to do 37.5 hours in the week
You can carry 2 hours over to the next week (so you can do 35.5 hours, or 39.5 hours)

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R Giskard Reventlov

Start at 0800, leave at 1600, half hour for lunch. They won't countenance paying me for overtimne so understand that I will never do any. Bit like getting a plumber in to fix the shower for $100 and then asking him to fix the washing machine, you know, as you are here already but for no more money. Yes, like that would ever happen! It is disrespectful to expect you to work for nothing.

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Blumen

Dalek Dave wrote:

NEVER do overtime

what if the project starts to lag?

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Dan Neely

start between 7 and 9 normal leave between 4 and 6 (but they won't kick you out for working later) an hour between 11 and 2 for lunch 40hrs/week Normally 8hrs/day, but if you have to leave early for something and would rather make the time up than take leave that's OK too. Excepting when i stay late to make up a late arrival/early departure I probably work under 10hrs of OT/year.

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Dirk Higbee

8:00 am to 5:00 pm 1 hour for lunch overtime is paid at time-and-a-half

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realJSOP

Then you're not doing your job, or the schedule was unrealistic to begin with.

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phannon86

8.30am - 5pm, some people flex it, so long as the same hours are done it doesn't matter though. 1 hour lunch and 2x 15min breaks Can't quite remember the overtime pay. I come in when I should and leave no later than is required.

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Lost User

Netherlands; Start @ 8:30, end @ 17:00, 30-minute break included. "Unpaid overtime"? Under no circumstances, ever. I'm not going to make money for someone else without getting anything in return. I ain't a charity :)

Blumen

But there is no scale for this, right? Amount of time taken for a work depends on person-person.

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hairy_hats

Or you have a manager.

eyeseetee

flexi usually work 8-4

Stuart Dootson

Blumen wrote:

Amount of time taken for a work depends on person-person

Which is why project estimation systems like COCOMO[^] include parameters to account for things like 'how good/experienced is your team'. You have to take that into account when projecting how long work is likely to take.

Blumen

they ask me sometimes how long would I take to do this project, and I'm not that experienced to tell them how much times its gonna take.

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Nagy Vilmos

My contracted working week is 35 hours, 9 to 5 with an hour for lunch. Normally, I'm in a little after 8 and I only lunch Thursday & Friday down t'pub. That said, thre is the flexibilty to come late some days or leave early. I don't normally take it because I push to the limit during the summer. When the family are at home in Hungary, I'm normally out at 3 on Friday, to fly over for the weekend and then I fly back Monday morning arriving at work around 11. I was also doing that every week for two years before the family moved over.

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Rage

That's when you use the "factor 2" rule: make a mere effort estimation and multiply it by two.

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Rage

benjymous wrote:

6 hours in the day

That's _at least_ 6 hours then, otherwise you will have to come on Saturdays (since obviously 5d*6h/d < 37.5).

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David Crow

Blumen wrote:

So this is gonna be a problem for us.

Is it a problem to work one less hour per day?

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Lost User

Blumen wrote:

How is the timings

My typical work day is from whenever I get to work until the time I leave to go home.

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benjymous

Yeah. It means if you've had a late night you can crawl in at 10, take a half hour lunch, and go home at 4.30, but you need to make up the hours the rest of the week

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Lost User

..and still you can't trust the system blindly. There are a lot of variables that play along, and not all of them are measured. Common sense cannot be replaced by an algorithm yet. We would have replaced congress if it were that easy :)