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I'm from Spain and this article does not represent Spain. Let me expand on this. The typical workday in Spain (no matter if you are a worker or in an office) g

I'm from Spain and this article does not represent Spain. Let me expand on this. The typical workday in Spain (no matter if you are a worker or in an office) goes from 7:00/9:00 to 15:00/18:00. This is usually a 8 hours work day (a lot of unpaid extra hours are quite typical in any IT job). Usually there are two stops before lucnh, one at the beginning of the day, usually 15 minutes to have a coffee with coworkers and another one of 15-20 minutes at midday (11:00/12:00) to have a piece of fruit or just another coffee. At lunch there are two options, the ones that leave job at 15:00 usually eat at 15:30 - 16:00 (quite late but quite common), the rest takes an hour to have lunch (usually two dishes and dessert [a bit too much I admit]) and they are allowed to leave normally when they make 8 hours at work. There are a lot of flexibility if you are not public facing so you can play a bit with the arriving/living time (usually you are allowed to arrive up to 10:00 in the morning). Only people who lives really close to home (up to 10/15 minutes) goes there to have lunch with their family and they usually also take a power nap of 15 minutes more or less. Spanish siesta is for Fridays and holidays.

fhood 9y ago
Out of curiosity, is it possible that tech jobs follow a more global schedule than more local/traditional professions?
- gcb0 9y ago
  from someone who lived briefly in madrid: offices take up to 2h lunch. smaller shops and commerce takes around 3. workday can go up to 8pm, like most offices around the world and nobody expects extra paid hours. now, that was changing at the time. big stores, mostly H&M/zara/forever21 style of chinese fashion dump, are open from 9 to 9 like in the US. big international brands of super markets too. thats was causing lots of conflicts from unions and such. and that was over 6 years ago. so maybe those companies managed to redefine it in the last decade?
  - natzar 9y ago
    smaller shops and commerce takes around 3 ¿? In spain no one have more than 1hour for lunch.. The only ones that could fit in that description are cookers or restaurants staff, working in 2 parts. (12:00 - 16:00) and (20:00 - 23:00). Im from spain btw.
    - gcb0 9y ago
      thats was almost a decade ago, but in downtown madrid I couldnt find any local clothier or bank (other than hsbc) that was open during those ~3H. dont remember about other type of places.
      - RBerenguel 9y ago
        As mentioned elsewhere, though, it's not a 3h break, but 3 hours closed to the public. Usually 1-2 of those hours is back office, maintenance, inventory, accounting, etc (well, for banks I'm not sure, but for independent shops that's definitely the case, usually at least)
    - tfvghbv 9y ago
      > Im from spain btw. I can tell. Your command of English grammar and vocabulary is atrocious, man.
      - wavefunction 9y ago
        Downvoted for hostility.
      - deleted 9y ago
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- professorTuring 9y ago
  I believe that more "artisan" work or traditional professions does not have an schedule. Also, if you work for yourself you don't have a schedule neither. A carpenter, for example, will work in projects and probably doesn't have an specific schedule (I believe this applies globally). A policeman or a nurse will work in work shifts... But this I can tell you, practically nobody will have a three hours stop in their typical work day. In the retail industry it's a bit different and you can find small shops owners that usually close from 14:00 to 17:00) and people working in big companies like "Ikea" or "MediaMarkt" that are being forced to have strange daily workshifts with 4 hours working in the morning and another 4 hours in the afternoon... But they are usually young people that hate that and usually goes to the gym with that extra time...
anigbrowl 9y ago
Spanish siesta is for Fridays and holidays. It's been a while since I worked in Spain (15 years) but the firm I worked at had an every day siesta policy because the owner likes siestas and had grown his business that way. The company had offices in Barcelona and Valencia so maybe the tradition has deeper roots in Catalonia.
- Oletros 9y ago
  No, siesta on weekdays has not deep roots in Catalonia. It is reserved for holidays or weekends
Guncat12 9y ago
This was not my experience at all when I visited Andalusia 6 months ago. Do different parts of Spain have different rules like this?

fhood 9y ago

Out of curiosity, is it possible that tech jobs follow a more global schedule than more local/traditional professions?

gcb0 9y ago
from someone who lived briefly in madrid: offices take up to 2h lunch. smaller shops and commerce takes around 3. workday can go up to 8pm, like most offices around the world and nobody expects extra paid hours. now, that was changing at the time. big stores, mostly H&M/zara/forever21 style of chinese fashion dump, are open from 9 to 9 like in the US. big international brands of super markets too. thats was causing lots of conflicts from unions and such. and that was over 6 years ago. so maybe those companies managed to redefine it in the last decade?
- natzar 9y ago
  smaller shops and commerce takes around 3 ¿? In spain no one have more than 1hour for lunch.. The only ones that could fit in that description are cookers or restaurants staff, working in 2 parts. (12:00 - 16:00) and (20:00 - 23:00). Im from spain btw.
  - gcb0 9y ago
    thats was almost a decade ago, but in downtown madrid I couldnt find any local clothier or bank (other than hsbc) that was open during those ~3H. dont remember about other type of places.
    - RBerenguel 9y ago
      As mentioned elsewhere, though, it's not a 3h break, but 3 hours closed to the public. Usually 1-2 of those hours is back office, maintenance, inventory, accounting, etc (well, for banks I'm not sure, but for independent shops that's definitely the case, usually at least)
  - tfvghbv 9y ago
    > Im from spain btw. I can tell. Your command of English grammar and vocabulary is atrocious, man.
    - wavefunction 9y ago
      Downvoted for hostility.
    - deleted 9y ago
      [deleted]
professorTuring 9y ago
I believe that more "artisan" work or traditional professions does not have an schedule. Also, if you work for yourself you don't have a schedule neither. A carpenter, for example, will work in projects and probably doesn't have an specific schedule (I believe this applies globally). A policeman or a nurse will work in work shifts... But this I can tell you, practically nobody will have a three hours stop in their typical work day. In the retail industry it's a bit different and you can find small shops owners that usually close from 14:00 to 17:00) and people working in big companies like "Ikea" or "MediaMarkt" that are being forced to have strange daily workshifts with 4 hours working in the morning and another 4 hours in the afternoon... But they are usually young people that hate that and usually goes to the gym with that extra time...

anigbrowl 9y ago

Spanish siesta is for Fridays and holidays. It's been a while since I worked in Spain (15 years) but the firm I worked at had an every day siesta policy because the owner likes siestas and had grown his business that way. The company had offices in Barcelona and Valencia so maybe the tradition has deeper roots in Catalonia.

Oletros 9y ago
No, siesta on weekdays has not deep roots in Catalonia. It is reserved for holidays or weekends

Guncat12 9y ago

This was not my experience at all when I visited Andalusia 6 months ago. Do different parts of Spain have different rules like this?