when do you work? (high-tech edition)
Jun. 9th, 2009 07:48 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
cellioA recent conversation at work makes me curious about current work-hour trends in the high-tech sector. If you work in this sector (in any job), work full-time and outside your home, and work what your company considers to be "conventional hours" (e.g. I'm not looking for the night-shift folks here), would you please answer a few questions for me?
"Typically" in these questions means that; I'm not concerned about the occasional doctor's appointment or parent-teacher conference that makes you change your routine. If you have something more regular going on that complicates your answer, please comment. If you are Shabbat-observant, please answer for the summer and comment. (I call out that special case because I know it will apply to several folks here.)
"By what time" means if you tend to arrive between, say, 8:00 and 8:30, choose 8:30. "After what time" means if you tend to leave between, say, 5:00 and 5:30, choose 5:00. Think of this as "what's the range of hours when, if someone wanted to talk with me in person, I'd be around".
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"Typically" in these questions means that; I'm not concerned about the occasional doctor's appointment or parent-teacher conference that makes you change your routine. If you have something more regular going on that complicates your answer, please comment. If you are Shabbat-observant, please answer for the summer and comment. (I call out that special case because I know it will apply to several folks here.)
"By what time" means if you tend to arrive between, say, 8:00 and 8:30, choose 8:30. "After what time" means if you tend to leave between, say, 5:00 and 5:30, choose 5:00. Think of this as "what's the range of hours when, if someone wanted to talk with me in person, I'd be around".
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Date: 2009-06-10 03:10 am (UTC)At the job I held the longest, which was with a large corporation, the nominal standard was specific times, but the *effective* policy was core hours. At the job previous to that (which was my favorite job ever aside from the occasional financial problems), the policy was core hours... and everyone knew that unless there was a meeting scheduled, we'd wander in between 10 and 11, and leave somewhere between dinnertime and 2 AM.