"My office hours are from 9 to 5"

[AOII Angel]

Apparently this French agreement has been misreported and overblown. The agreement is not a law and only effects ~200,000 high level tech executives that already work about 78hours a week. It's funny when buzzfeed fact checks The Guardian. http://www.buzzfeed.com/marietelling...-afte?s=mobile


My work schedule is 8-5. I knock off as soon as I hit the quota assigned for me by my company bc there is no incentive to do more. I have learned this over years. My husband works long hours as a pharmaceutical company clinical scientist. His hours are dependent on the work going on at the time. He gets upwards of 500 emails a day and does a lot of work from home including checking emails. They resent their European colleagues not for jealousy over time off but because they delay things getting done because they are never there. Subsequently, the American team works harder to make up for it. For years, my husband talked about getting a job in industry with the goal of us moving to Europe. Now, he'd rather die. LOL.

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Originally Posted by AOII Angel

Apparently this French agreement has been misreported and overblown. The agreement is not a law and only effects ~200,000 high level tech executives that already work about 78hours a week. It's funny when buzzfeed fact checks The Guardian. http://www.buzzfeed.com/marietelling...-afte?s=mobile

My work schedule is 8-5. I knock off as soon as I hit the quota assigned for me by my company bc there is no incentive to do more. I have learned this over years. My husband works long hours as a pharmaceutical company clinical scientist. His hours are dependent on the work going on at the time. He gets upwards of 500 emails a day and does a lot of work from home including checking emails. They resent their European colleagues not for jealousy over time off but because they delay things getting done because they are never there. Subsequently, the American team works harder to make up for it. For years, my husband talked about getting a job in industry with the goal of us moving to Europe. Now, he'd rather die. LOL.

At my last job, I had to be available for whenever my equals/colleagues in Europe and Australia were free, which meant coming in 1-2 hours early for one and staying 1-2 hours later for the other based on our time changes and their time changes.

That meant my calls with EU had to happen between 10-1 and 3-6 their time, and my AU calls had to occur either at the very beginning of their day (6pm our time) or at the very end of their day (6am our time). It got more complicated when everyone changed their clocks (or didn't) on different schedules (we also had an office in Indianapolis who at the time, did NOT change their clocks).

After a while, I got tired of "unofficially" having to be there way before and way after my local coworkers and changed to a 4-day, 10-hour schedule. I actually got more work done because it was always quiet before 9 and after 5, and because other people knew that I wouldn't (shouldn't) be available on Fridays and therefore stuck to scheduled calls much more effectively. That is, as long as it wasn't another "bank holiday" or during one of their 7 weeks of "holiday" (vacation) time.