8 hour working day

[Big Dawg]

I've got myself a new gig, most of the people hot desk so you dont really get to sit with anyone you work with directly.

They mainly tend to come and go barely working a 9-5.

So what do you take to be an 8hour working day?

9-5
or 9-6?

[BrilloPad]

IMO nothing to do with hours but more to do with a 8 hour professional working day.

[Big Dawg]

IMO nothing to do with hours but more to do with a 8 hour professional working day.

so what defines a 8 hour professional working day brillo?

thanks

[CheeseSlice]

No minimum hours in my contracts, just a professional day of work.
In reality this is somewhere around 8 hours for me (in my case 9am to 6ish), but depends on the project, my performance and the clientco.
If I'm behind and its my fault I'll make it up. If the commute is bad, then I'll usually make it up at home. If I'm behind and its clientco fault then I don't do this. In the end its about making sure their is trust between me and clientco. I want to make sure clientco knows I'm reliable and they're getting moneys worth, and I like to make sure they're not going to take the mick.

[rd409]

so what defines a 8 hour professional working day brillo?

thanks

Professional day is you stay until you get the job done to professional courtesy. Some days you work 9-6, and some day you may have to stay late and/or leave early depending on the work load.

No $**t Sherlock.

[kingcook]

Professional day is you stay until you get the job done to professional courtesy. Some days you work 9-6, and some day you may have to stay late and/or leave early depending on the work load.

No $**t Sherlock.

What if the job is a 3 month contract? Do you do the entire 3 months work in one day? (just kidding!). Do you agree what you're going to do during that day up front?

My PWD is 7.5 hours unless it specifically mentions it in my contract. I don't do 7.5 hours every day though, I do extra some days but less on Friday to get back home earlier.

[malvolio]

My PWD is 7.5 hours .

Then it's not a PWD then. If you do any chargeable work in a 24 hour period for your client, they get charged a set fee for your services for that 24 hours. Since you don't get overtime and they don't get relief for short days, why worry about how many hours you work in any one day?

OK, it means that clients can get charged a lot of money for a 30 minute phone call when I've said I'm not working that day, but equally they don't get charged extra when I spend 7 hours in a car to and from their client's site for 8 hours of meetings. We're there to deliver stuff, not time.

[russell]

I wonder a plumber would ask this on a plumbers forum,

"How many hours should I work at the customers house?"

As many as you want is the answer.

[NickFitz]

Haven't worked an 8 hour day in years; it's a 7.5 hour day everywhere I've been this century, except for the place where the permies had a 7 hour day - my contract still stipulated 7.5 hours, so that's what I did. If I did come across somewhere trying to impose an 8 hour day, I might well refuse the gig on principle.

For example, at CurrentClientCo, I tend to arrive about 9:30, take 30 minutes for lunch, and leave around 17:30.

[d000hg]

I wonder a plumber would ask this on a plumbers forum,

"How many hours should I work at the customers house?"

As many as you want is the answer.

You mean a plumber who charges by the hour or one who quotes a fixed fee for the job... neither of which is charging by the professional day?