What hours do you work? Annual leave allowance? Job perks?

[Rainydays55]

Just being nosey tbh! In your current job what hours do you work? What’s your annual leave allowance? Main perks of the job?

8am to 5pm, then 8pm to 10pm. Mon to Fri. occasionally a Saturday morning
14 weeks holiday
Career average pension
Half price school fees

Pension company. Work 9 - 5 but some do 8 - 4 or 10 - 6. No weekend work. No stress.

28 days holiday plus Bank Holidays (can buy or sell a week): free private health if you take it up: pension double matched upto 7%/14%. Pay is crap though!

Hours 9-6 but flexible within reason - I normally do more like 10-7

Perks:
Free virtual GP appts with private GP
Private health insurance
Free drinks, breakfast and and snacks in the office
Small gym in the office
Very flexible WFH policy - I’m pretty much fully remote
Bonus scheme that’s new this year - potentially 10%+
Annual leave 25+8 but moving to an “unlimited” policy this year - will see how that pans out
Good Christmas party and usually a summer one too pre-Covid

I work in a maintained nursery school.
18.5 hours per week, so every morning.

Annual leave: all school holidays off but I'm only paid for 46 weeks of the year, it's just split over 12 months.

Perks: Ermmmmm, the school holidays obviously. Finishing at lunchtime every day so I can pick my kids up from school/nursery at present. Government pension.

Cons: Absolutely no flexibility in hours or start/finish times, so I have to rely on a childminder to take my eldest to school. No days off during term time so lots of stuff at school would have been missed (pre/post COVID). No perks such as free tea/coffee/meals. No paid for Christmas dos.
My salary just about covers childcare fees, but we couldn't afford for me to do more hours as it would obviously cost more in fees.

Civil service secondment so travel to work included in my daily hours. (3 per day) F/T. 36 hrs week.Fully flex. I work compressed hours. Tues - Friday. 30 days Annual leave. 11 'privilege leave. Get BH in lieu as I am not contracted Mondays.

Very very family friendly. Worked there 31 years. 3 x maternity leave. One long term illness for 5 months . (Sick pay at full pay for six months) I'm still on final salary pension scheme till April. Then career average.

7.45 - 5.30pm, often later, plus a good 4 hours extra at home each week during evenings or weekends. Half an hour for lunch on a good day.
12 weeks holidays a year. Often work a few days of those.
Can you guess my job 🤷‍♀️

Self employed. 50 hours of billable work a week on average. Fantastic bunch of clients and I thoroughly enjoy my work but major downside is no company pension, no sick pay, no paid holidays (I take 20 days a year, unpaid of course), let alone some of these awesome perks others are mentioning - well being funds etc.

24 hours a week. Bare minimum holidays (16.8 to be precise) only perk is getting a slight discount on childcare.

32 hours a week, 5 weeks holiday, 2 bonuses per year, free lunch. Can set own hours, and work in the office or virtually, useful for when I want to visit family for longer periods.

Teacher. Holidays and pension are the perks. I'll never feel I have to justify them, ever again.

@sweetcheekweak

I do about 32 hours a week, well paid, wfh

Very flexible so split my hours as and when I like throughout the day

Unlimited annual leave, 6 months fully paid maternity etc.

Private healthcare, 15% non contributory pension, 20% bonus (10% personal performance 10% company performance)

They were great when coming back from mat leave too, perks included free breast pumps, return to work coaches.

Wow! Sounds fantastic - what do you do???

NHS hospital doctor, working 60% of full time. Average hours 29.8/week. Shift work, normal day is 7:30-5:30, then long days, nights and weekends as well. Because I'm a LTFT trainee, I have fixed days off in the week. Shifts and EWTD requirements means I also get random "zero days" to even out our hours, when my kids are in school/nursery, which are one of my favourite things.

19.2 days AL (60% of 32) plus complicated calculations about bank holidays.

Not many direct staff perks - good pension I guess, and job security. Plus NHS discount in shops etc.

30 days annual leave plus up to three days flexi leave a month plus i take two weeks unpaid leave a year. This is spread over 12 months so I hardly notice it. I can cover all school holidays with this amount of leave.

Very family friendly, I can flex off and nip to see plays at school or whatever. Some home working allowed.

Good pension.

Strong union.

Technically 9-5 mon-Fri, but it's flexi so I can work any hours as long as I do them.

30 days leave plus bank holidays, 13 weeks full pay sick and 13 weeks half pay.

Up to 20% annual bonus dependant on performance

Subsidised health insurance and one of those 'perks' websites where you get random discounts on gift card, tyres, holidays etc.

75 hours last week. Varying 12.5 hour shifts, nights, weekends and 8 hour shifts. 31 days of annual leave. Supposed to be and average of 48 hours weekly. Basically no perks. Circa 45k.

14 hours over three days. Around 22 days holiday (pro-rata of 30+8).

Some health cover. Reasonable pension.

37.5 hours a week
25 days annual leave (23 at lower grades I think)+ 8 bank holidays
Option to buy up to an additional 5 days leave with cost spread over the year.
Flexible start / finish times but don’t accrue flexitime hours.
Private medical cover
Decent company pension
Car allowance (above certain grades)
Various corporate “perks” schemes through salary sacrifice eg they pay my gym membership for the year which is cheaper than paying monthly and it comes off my salary before tax so save on that too.

Monday - Friday 9-5 is my official hours, but we all work flexible to be honest. The work just needs to get done. We are WFH.

25 day annual leave plus bank holidays

Flexible employers, especially regarding childcare. For instance I can do the school pick up and drop off and it's fine.

All female company, so everyone sorta understands everyone else's challenges weather it be childcare, poorly children, menopause, caring for elderly relatives and basically all the women work of life. There really is a "it is what it is, can't be helped" vibe, and nobody to date has ever taken the piss because nobody wants to loose that feeling.

6 months full pay sick, then 3 months at half.

Enhanced dependant allowence,.compared to other companies in the sector.

Great maternity package and adoption /fostering packages (not that I need this)

An actual menopause policy and support (again I don't need this, but some of my colleagues really find it helpful.)

Lots of wellness packages, mental health support available.

Genuinely just a lovely place to work, the laughter is plentiful, the stress is low and yeah I just love my job.

37 hours per week. I get paid a pittance.
But I have 32 days annual leave. Plus bank Holidays. I work flexi time and work from home. I also have a very flexible and understanding manager. My work is also the sort that can be done at any time, so manager is happy for us to work outside core hours.

As a parent, I've hit the jackpot TBH.

25 hours per week - totally flexible. Some weeks I do 10 hours, some weeks it's 35.
Home based and if I need to attend meetings then travel is paid. Meetings are often in the evening.
I work term time only.
Great team and clients.

SaaS company. 37.5 hours a week
Good salary with 20% bonus at least (this quarter it’s 40%), 25 days holiday, plus bank holidays and Christmas shutdown. Sick pay. £300 well being budget per quarter, full private medical and dental, office and travel allowance, if I’m in the office free lunch/snacks/drinks, flexible hours.

I’ve had enough awful jobs to know I’ve landed on my feet with this one

Forgot to add I have stock options, life insurance and income protection included too, plus 8% matched pension.

Class based SENCO in a primary school.
Hours are “as required to do the job”: realistically that’s 8-4 in school, plus an hour or two at night and a couple of hours at the weekend. Parents evenings, residential trips and staff meetings are in addition.
Perks; 13 weeks holiday a year. A free school dinner at Christmas (faith academy) and a water cooler. We pay for tea/coffee. Pension is pretty good, but been topping it up since I was 22. Sick pay is 6 months full pay, 6 months half pay. I’ve had some good CPD, including support for post-grad qualifications, but think that’s less common now.
Pay: about £36,000

35 but home or office so flexible and often out in my car driving to client meetings. Salary decent, bonus, 28 days holiday, sick pay for a month, pension scheme and life assurance. Nice offices, no line manager and just get on with it.

I work 37.5 hours a week Monday to Friday.

Flexible working so I pick when I start and finish daily, we can do work in the evenings if we would like time off in the day.

I have the choice to work from home or an office.

Discounts on cars, bikes and a majority of shops.

A good pension which is great.

Standard holiday leave is 26 days plus bank holidays. They now offer unlimited holiday so we book as much as we need.