How many hours do you work per week if you are full time?

[AbsentmindedWoman]

I'm curious about how much extra work people do in their roles. I'm job hunting, and depending on the company culture, sometimes long hours are to be expected.

How many hours do you end up working on an average week?

Average 50-55. Teacher.

@pitterpatterrain

Your comment about optics is bang on, and I suspect our respective industries are very similar. Thank you for the advice - I need to have a hard look at myself.

35 but probably do less! Working from home and not a lot of work on.

Im contracted to work 30 hrs (condensed over 5 days so I can pick up kids)
I didnt ask to reduce my hours post children, the job was for 30 hrs.

I find I do about 35 on average, sometimes more and I'm a devil for checking my emails!

@MoominFeatures

Thanks for replying, sounds very stressful, I can't imagine working 50 hours a week let alone 100. I'm not ambitious, career or money orientated so would never have the motivation to put in the kind of hours mentioned on here.

Hats off to the women with kids managing to work over full time hours, with husbands also working full time. Honestly don't know how you do it.

6x12 on shift
Some extra hours if busy
Then off shift
Full time contract

I was contracted 35 I worked 60 hours some weeks. No breaks hardly and 12 hour shifts. Care assistant

Contracted to work 35 hours pw but tend to work up to 40, as I'm also completing an apprenticeship diploma within the financial services.

Contracted to 41 and a quarter hours and am supposed to get 30 minutes lunch break unpaid but I honestly can't remember the last time I had a proper lunch break. If I'm not lone working (we don't close for lunch) we are busy testing eyes and 9 times out of ten the optometrist runs late and we maybe get 10 minutes to wolf down a sandwich in the back. Really starting to hate my employers for not replacing the 3 members of staff that have retired in the last year.

Contracted 35. Usually work 7-5 so around 45hrs with breaks. More if there are project deadlines, projects going live or projects where I need to have calls with other timezones.

Working with Mexico just now so I am having lengthy calls after dinner 2-3 times a week then early calls speaking to offshore software developers in India but still working through the day supporting other local projects, I can't wait for it to finish as the next big project is kicking off now, will run for 6-8'months (through Sumner!) and it and the application consultants are all in European timezone .

Contracted 37.5, reality is 50+ every week. Breaks few and far between. I haven’t been home ‘on time’ in over a year.
NHS (not frontline or senior)
No overtime / flexi / similar.
Management not interested but keen to be seen to encourage ‘well-being’

37.5 hours a week but I'm often heads in a task at my clock off time and end up doing a further half hour or so most days. Dont mind too much when my commute is the spare room to the living room.

When I worked in builder we ran out the door as very tense in there.. I was dying for 5pm.Awful

Usually 40-45.

Officially I’m 30 hours per week. But since end Nov until last week I worked around 40 hours per week.

Last week I had a nightmare with flooding in the house and homeschooling my son. So I worked less hours as i literally couldn’t keep it al together/. It would have been frowned upon , so I just kept quiet about it, and checked emails throughout the day.

I work 36 which is full time (civil service London) but seconded on Kent coast. Compress my hours to 4 days. So 9 hours a day which is easy wfh but quite king when commuting.

I work overtime by choice. I do not do a single minute that I am not paid for. I charge overtime rated for any extra time . Been there - had the piss taken in private business. Never again.

Full time for me would be 37.5. I now work pro-rata 30 hours - this varies - some weeks I only put in around 25 hours, other weeks (like right now where I'm swapping back and forth from work right now) I do 40 (TOIL, not overtime).

I need the additional money but if I can avoid it, I'd never go back to full time as this week would end up being near 50 to get it all done. It's much easier to say no when part time.

Public sector. I work 37.5 hours per week and not a minute more.

72 hours on average

I'm full time (well, 30 hours, but considered FT except obviously paid less than those that do 35 hours). I probably do 10-12 hours extra per week so average 40-42 hours. My work is very much a place that helps people in dire situations and I really care about those people. We are also completely funded by a wing & a prayer so they can't afford to have our small team on increased hours.

What I get in return means a lot to me though. I can take days as needed for dc's appointments (one of my dc has high medical needs) and don't have to take unpaid time. I really appreciate this as it is very challenging as a single parent when your dc requires frequent hospital visits and supports. They also allow me to wfh during non-covid times at least 1/2 my working days, which is a huge saving childcare wise as commuting is about 40 minutes and that one dc doesn't slot easily into wrap around care.

I am glad I am in a role where people step up, even when we can't be directly compensated, because marginalized people really need more supports than the current climate can provide.

Contracted 32.5. it's usually about 40.