Does anyone actually work 9-5?

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Just that really. I was thinking and none of my friends/family do so I wondered how common it actually is/isn’t.

I’m a teacher so well known to not be 9-5 my day officially starts at 8.35 and ends at 5 so I’m in school 8-6 most days. Husband is an engineer/project manager so works long hours plus a commute (often away overnight as well).

Do you work the classic 9 to 5?

I do but it’s shift work, so I might work Saturdays, Sundays and public holidays, but always the same set hours.

Yes, I make sure I do unless there is very good reason to stay late and I’ll then do it without a problem.

Definitely don’t see the problem in putting in more time when it is absolutely necessary but all that happens if you make it standard to work long hours is that you just get given more unpaid work. And no one will thank you for it on your death bed.

Yes in theory. Out of house from 8 am to 5.45 including journey to and from work.

I used to have a 9-5 in the very early 2000s. Then it all changed to 8.30-5/5.30. Doing just 9-5 made a huge positive difference to my life. I hate the current trend for longer hours...it's mostly pointless

We have opening hours 7-6.30 so work a variety hours between those times. Average work day for me is 9 hours but over four days.

I do. I have colleagues doing 8-4 and 10-6, but I'm 9-5, with a slightly earlier finish on Fridays.

Yes I do, I work 9 to 5 with weekends and bank holidays off and almost 8 weeks annual leave a year. I'm an NHS podiatrist. I chose the job for the hours and the generous annual leave.
When I was a nurse I had no social life because of the awful hours I worked. Work life balance is incredibly important.

No, I always work over. I tell myself I'm going to finish early today, and by early, I mean my finish time. Monday I should have worked 8.30-16.30, ended up 07.45-18.00. We do get TOIL though.

9-3 for me (school support staff), but obviously this is reflected in the low pay.

Years ago when I graduated, my job was 9-5 with a full hour for lunch. When did it start being a standard 30 mins for lunch? I miss my longer lunches (yes, I know I didn't get paid for them and no, I couldn't adjust my hours to fit a longer lunch in, but I just wonder when the standard changed from 1 hour to a half hour 🤔). It was the same at my secondary school thinking about it. We had a 15/20 min break and then a 50 minute lunch.

I'm 8.30-4.30 . I really like that at 4.30 I go.

Dh and dd are flexible which means they tend to start 9-10 but then don't finish until into the evening (dd also works compressed hours)

I'm really glad that dh didn't have that option when the children were small as it was lovely knowing he'd be home by 5.30 and we then ate together and he bathed them. I think he would have had much less of a relationship with them-he'd have not seen them much during the week.

I don't work 9-5, but I don't work outside my contracted hours. When I'm working I'm working but as soon as finish time arrives that's it, laptop off and don't think about it. Anyone under 30k who does anything else is being taken for a mug.

We have flexitime, 37 hours a week between I think 6:30 and 18:00 (and can carry over about 20 hours to the next 4-week period). So theoretically I could do 9-5 and have a 36-minute lunch break, but I prefer to start and finish earlier.

Trying to remember my factory job. I think it was 8:30 till 5 four days a week, and 8:30 till 2 on Fridays.

3pm-6pm are my core hours, the rest is flexible, but i tend to roughly do 1-8ish

I work 9-5 - lawyer but I no longer do client work. Very flexible if need be, though I love logging off promptly 😂 Currently on maternity leave and contemplating going back part time.

I work 2-10, 5 days a week.

I have one friend who does- other friends have no idea of their working hours anymore, they work way over whatever they are meant to be.
i consider myself lucky to do 9-5.30

Thats kind of the default pattern at our place but since everyone went remote or hybrid it’s much more flexible. I’m part time, just increased to 30 hours a week, and I choose to do that 9-3 as it fits around school runs/ childcare. However it’s far more of a ‘as long as the work gets done’ sort of arrangement - sometimes that means logging on again in the evening or at the weekend when we’re busy, sometimes it means I can nip out for an hour or two in the day as we’ve not got much on. All of which explicitly agreed by the boss.

My husband is contracted to work 9-5 but reality is he works as and when needed, usually starts about 7am.

I do 35 hours a week in theory. I WFH, and actually work more like 50-55 hours. Manager and above don't get paid overtime

The thing I miss most from the early noughties workplace is the full lunch hour. Back then the public sector jobs I did were a 35 hour week, so a rough 9-5 with an unpaid hour at lunch. Ample time to eat some food at a leisurely pace and do something else as well - a walk, pop to the post office, shopping, whatever. You felt like you'd had a proper break.

Nowadays it's 37.5, and although there is technically flexitime taking a full hour regularly would definitely raise eyebrows even if you worked the time back. Feels like there's just about time to make food, eat food, have a wee and then back to the grindstone.

Never at 5e moment I work 8-3 every day for the convenience of school age dc.

Previously I've worked 7-6 every day when dc were at nursery

Prior to having dc I worked shift patterns of 7-4, 8-5, 9-6

I WFH 9-5 Mon-Fri and earn a big 6 figure salary.

Earlier on in my career I was primarily office based so worked much longer hours including commuting. As seniority of roles increased so did the flexibility.

I don't think I've ever worked 9-5 and I'm 51 yrs old....

I now work 7.30 to 20.00 or 19.30 to 8.00 x3 a week in the nhs. The long days/hrs are a killer on my knees/back but then I love having 4 days off every week.

I can start anytime between 7 & 9 and finish between 3 & 5. I work 7 hours a day and don’t stay late unless I’m paid overtime

I work 8.40 - 2.30

DH works 7am - 3pm

DH works 9-5 which in reality is 10-4 with some extended coffee breaks. Well paid professional position. I don't know how he gets away with it and still v respected and successful.

Currently 8.30 to 4.30 rarely get away before 5 though.

m new job will be 9 to 5 but time will tell how accurate this will be.