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8-to-5 is 45 hours.

• jasode 8y ago
  In America, both 8-to-5 and 9-to-5 are colloquially referred to as "40 hours/week". It's not an exact math equation. E.g. Many offices that have salaried "40 hours/week" jobs have expectations of employees showing up at ~8:00am, leaving ~5:00pm, with an unpaid 1 hour lunch in between. Same inexact math reason that we also call 9-to-5 "40 hours" instead of "37.5 hours" even though some workers take a half hour lunch break.