Do you consider 35 or 37.5 hours per week to be standard in an office job?

[firsttimemama]

What is now considered standard, or what is your experience/expectation when you see a Full Time office job advertised?

I’ve worked 35, 37.5 and 40. Full time at my current employer is 35 although I do less. I really noticed when I went from doing 35 to 40 once!
Does the job advert not say what full time is, or can you find another ad with the same employer that is full time and states what that means?

Part time is 18.5 in my place of work with a 30 minute lunch break included.

My last local authority job was 35hrs, private sector was 37.5 hrs. I've also had a "fulltime" temp job at 30hrs a week .

Civil service new contract (past two years)- 8.35- 5.30 is full time. Anything under is part time.

Should say that my 30hr job didn't involve a lunch break which is legal but hard going. The others had 30 to 60min break.

9-5 with an hour for lunch (unpaid) equals 35 hours per week.

Shouldn't you get a break after four hours' work, @TheSecretJeven?

Oh in fact it's every six hours, not four. So that doesn't sound legal @TheSecretJeven

Oh god it is actually!! I need more coffee....

I'd expect either 37.5 or 40. 35 would seem a shorter week.

In the office I work lunch is unpaid. We are contracted to 40 hours a week. So usually work 8.30 to 5 and take a 30 min lunch break.

@enfinale yup its perfectly legal. Just hard going. I had the post lunch slump without any lunch .

35 hours is full time at my nhs trust. Not sure about an office job.

37.5.

Work back office in a bank - 35 hours considered working week. Core hours of 10-12 and 2-4, how you make up your working day/ week around that is up to you (unless there’s operational demands, which is a rare occurrence).

Our work place says full time is 35 hours so 9-5 with an hour for lunch or something similar.

We do 36.25 hrs in our office, but DH does 40.

35 with an unpaid hour for lunch.

37.5 hours with unpaid lunches / overtime.

40 for me.

37.5 or 40; I don't think many jobs are 35 hours anymore.

I would say 9-5 Mon-Fri. It depends if breaks and counted and how long you get (a hour or half an hour). So. it varies by location, but generally it would be between those hours, and between 35-40 hours.

37.5 on average

When looking at part time jobs I always just worked it out on 40 hours then I wasn't disappointed

Mine is a charity and my official hours are 8am-4pm with half hour lunch.