In your country, how long is a day's work? How many hours each week?

Many places are going to 4 tens instead of five 8s here. Our patrol sherrifs are 4 tens, I think our State Police are, too. Some of the people who supply what my husband needs to work on the subway cars are four tens so that the people who are five eights actually have something to work with on Fridays. They tried my husband and some others on 4 tens and they didn't have enough parts. They kept running out of things to do the last couple of hours of each day. So they figured out that an entire factory on 4 tens doesn't work. My husband hated it. First, nothing to do for the last one or two hours. Second, on his feet for two more hours a day. He slept all day Friday, so the extra day off was a waste. They tried putting more people on to supply the end of the line people, and they couldn't afford it. So beginning line guys who are younger and have more things to put together are four tens and they don't mind. End of the line guys who are older and have less to put on, but also have to test are five 8s and that seems to work better. The plant supers were hoping to get in on the cheaper night rates and shut the power off on Fridays. They can still do that for part of the plant. Eventually they did save some money that way, just not as much as projectyed. I often work 3 /12, 4, and 7 1/3 hours because I often work part time and full time as a teacher and we don't have 8 hour days. They've talked about extending the school day. That way parents could pick their kids up on the way home from work and hot have latch key kids. But that only works if the parents have the same hours as the school. Most people don't. Many young children are falling asleep at the end of the day as it is now.

last one I had was 8 hours a day 5 days a week alot of Sat. nd times Iworked 16 hours then they feed us had to after so many hours and we got paid over time too

I have had all sorts of jobs, but very few of them were less that 8 hours daily. Thirteen hours a day was not unusual. Several of the jobs I had were in 24 hr facilities and after working 8 hours or more then sometimes the next shift did not come in to relieve us, so we stayed and worked another 8 hours getting home about 7:30 in the morning. One job I had we worked 45 days straight with no days off. Some of the jobs paid overtime for time spent over 8 hours, but some did not. When teaching I was on salary so there was no overtime, but the pay was pretty good compared to other kinds of work. The jobs I liked best were those with responsibility and autonomy, where they was no supervisor to interfere with the work. I didn't mind working long hours as long as I was not at somebody else's beck and call.

in my country it depends though for full time it takes 8 hours a day, some have 5 day in a week while some have 6 days in a week though in my company we only have 5 days in a week and 8 hours work 9 hours all in all to include lunch time. if its more than 8 hours in a day we already considered it as overtime here with extra nor additional fee we seldom have part time though most of them are student that works in fastfood chain.

It depends on what the job is. I also live in America and the typical workday is considered to be 8 hours and the work week to be 40 hours. However my job varies from day to day, some days I might only work 7 hours, then work 9 hours the next. It all depends on many factors for me, I have certain job responsibilities and work until they are taken care of. I don't have a specific time that I am finished. In the end it comes out to be 40 hours, on occassion even a litttle more.

In my country (Macedonia) allmost every job is 8 hours. The army, police, hospitals etc. work 8 hours from 8am to 4pm. But there are also harder and less paid jobs where you work 12-13hours daily for less money. So in average it's 40hours a week.

I shouldn't answer this because I live in the U.S., but since I own my own businesses I spend a LOT more time working. Between the teddy bears and the jewelry I work about 12-15 hours a day 6 to 7 days a week. But since it is work I love it is very enjoyable and easy work. I've been spending the past 8 days cutting out teddy bears. I have to take a break to do some pearl restringing and knotting. Then it's back to bears. I also am currently dying pearls. It's something new to me and it's kind of like having a baby without knowing what it's going to be. You put the pearls in the dye bath and then wait to see how much of the dye takes. I have mohair for teddy bears coming in that will also be hand dyed. I love seeing what the dye job will turn out like. I plan to order more white mohair so I can have more fun with the various dyes I have purchased at Goodwill. Plus I always start dying fur when I get new medications. Yep, I got new meds and so I'm ready to start dying.

I work 20 hours a week with shifts from 4-8 hours. My husband works 50 hours a week. He works 3 shifts per week that are 12-13 hours, one 8-9 hour shift, then he has a short day most Saturdays where he works 7:30 till about 2.

I am working 9 hours a day, 7 days a week. It is the busy season though. In the summer we will be back down to five 8 hour days. I work in a factory where I am a manager over the inventory control department. If there are other shift leaders out of work, I have to fill in for them too. That can be tricky while we have three shifts running.

My husband and I were just talking about that last night. Some jobs consider 32 hours as being full time. Others anywhere from 36 to 40 hours is full time. Plus they can work anywhere from 4 to 7 days a week, with the hours of the day being anywhere from a few hours to 12 hours per day.

As you have known, I have been retired.Over here, according to "labour law" the work day is also eight hour days and not more than 40 hours a week.There are otherwise provisions for enterprises that adopt the form of piece-rate wage.You are lucky enough to get the job.

I think it depends on the job. I work at an English Center and I work on Monday to Saturday and it starts at 11 a.m. and finishes at 6.30 p.m. So that would be 7,5 hours a day, 6 days a week. :)

We normally work 42 hours a week. It is the regulation here. But I work at least 10 hours a day, with Saturday only 4 hours. I work in a factory, which is very difficult to leave on time. Because my superordinate often give order at the very last minute of the day. It is not really difficult, but a little bit destroy social life.

Yes it depends on alot of factors and if you work full time or part time. I'm currently not working many hours but hope to gain more work in the future, the economy is still very very tough out there, we do what we can. I would say on average though an 8 hour work day is good enough, but it does go over that for some people.

hi GardenGerty I used to work as a nurse's aide in the hospital and was shifted often so I might work a month on day shift and the next month on night shift 11 to 7 am. but finally I got to stay on the three to eleven shift which I really loved. yuo had time in the daytime to shop and what not and you got home at eleven thirty so had time to get 8 hours sleep. the 3 to 11 shift was nmore exciting in a hospital too as I often was sent to the ER to help the nurse there or the maternity ward and oh the baby ward, loved that so much. my other job in my later years was daytime parttime working ]in the library shelving all the media. I loved it as I loved the crew I worked with.I was retired forcibly at 79 but was asked to come back as the person who fired me gave age as a reason and you cannot fire someone if they are doing their job well just for being old. but I had had a bad fall and was in the hospital for a smashed left shoulder. my days of shelving anything were done so I stayed retired and foung mylot where I have been almost ever since.

Well I am pretty sure I am in the same country as you but what is supposed to be a typical work day here is 8 hours per day 5 days a week, but a lot of people even salaried people work an average of 50 hours a week in order to accomplish what needs to be done and to look in the eyes of their upper management. My husband works a lot of hours.

I work the usual 8-hour day, 5-day week. I wouldn't say I work 40 hours. Even though I always come in 15-20 minutes late in the morning, I always stay late in the day until I get the job done. I do have friends who work in the casino industry who work only 4 days, and 10-hour shifts.

In my current work, I work eight hours a day, five days a week. My shift starts from 9am and ends at 6pm, with an hour of unpaid lunch. However, I had a job a few years ago where I need to work 6 days a week. My shift is about 9 hours per day with only 30 minutes unpaid lunch. I decided to resigned in that job since I only get 1 day off per week and it is really tiring.

In our country it is normal to have a 8 hours a day of work, five days in a week. But I actually work more than 8 hours. I usually spend 12 hours 2 to three times each week because of over time and the nature of my work as a programmer. I work more hours to meet the many deadlines in our projects.

I work 50 hrs a week. That is 10 hrs 5 days a week.