Is 8 hours a day common thing ??

[Archangel]

Utter bollocks. Only permies work 'fixed' hours and leave on the dot at 4 or 5 o clock etc.

If you operated a 'proper' business, you wouldnt say 'oh, I've done my 8 hours for the day so Im off home now!'

What utter tosh!!!!!

I work fixed hours (dictated by me, not the client) because of my lifestyle and childcare needs. I leave my curret client every day at 4 on the dot to pick up my son at 4:30. If my client was an extra half an hour away I'd leave at 3:30 on the dot.

I've been contracting since 1988 and have never agreed to a day rate and never worked (regularly) more than 37.5 hours.

When I was investigated for IR35 they asked about hours worked, the reply was "the contract states 35 hours, I decide when I do them, I decide I like working 7-3 every day".

The fear of IR35 should not alter your life, just your business practices.

[Archangel]

Utter bollocks. Only permies work 'fixed' hours and leave on the dot at 4 or 5 o clock etc.

If you operated a 'proper' business, you wouldnt say 'oh, I've done my 8 hours for the day so Im off home now!'

You would if your "proper business" was providing 8 hours of support.

[NiceUpNorth]

contracted for 37hrs per week

up 2 me when i put those hours in

[ratewhore]

Haven't done an 8 hour day for years. I set expectations at interview stage and, as long as I deliver, no one moans. Even in an IB I was in at 9.30, gone at 4.30.

Current contract states 5 PWD's without stipulating what a PWD is. Works for me...

[NotAllThere]

The regular hours / IR35 question has been raised again and again since 1999. The consensus remains, and case law has shown, that it makes no difference. Many permies work regular hours. Many permies work "professional working days".

I don't work regular hours because it doesn't fit with my lifestyle.

[Ivor Bigun]

Utter bollocks. Only permies work 'fixed' hours and leave on the dot at 4 or 5 o clock etc.

If you operated a 'proper' business, you wouldnt say 'oh, I've done my 8 hours for the day so Im off home now!'

Uhhhhh - no sure where you're trying to go here.

If the gig is "X hours a day and no overtime", why would you do the extra hours for free?

Or..... are you trying to tell us all that you're different to most contractors.
Perhaps you're not paid by the hour but by "items of work completed"
- like a toilet cleaner being paid by the number of clean smelling traps .

What counts is the total money earned - not how you get paid.
BB, you think like a permie if you want - "I'm a business" etc
Meanwhile others will earn a lot more than you and be quite happy to do 8 hours a day.

Hell! pay me enough and I'll even clean your bog !

[Jaws]

My contract states something like £xxx/day based on an 8 hr day and somewhere else it mentions something about not exceeding 40hours/week.

I always work the 40hours and I've been able to invoice for additional hours before after mentioning to the client I might need them.