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It depends on commercial pressure and on how overtime is compensated. Early in my career our main customer put huge pressure on the company to fix bugs ASAP an
by mytailorisrich 3y ago
It depends on commercial pressure and on how overtime is compensated.
Early in my career our main customer put huge pressure on the company to fix bugs ASAP and we had to work 2 weeks flat out with overtime late every night plus over the weekend.
We managed to satisfy the customer AND I doubled my salary that month.
If it is a rare event then I have no issue with that. This has no negative effect on morale (it can even be a boost and improve team spirit), and in fact would be happy to get the opportunity.
It also helped that we had a good leader: our Director could not help on the debugging but made a point to stay with us and took charge of making sure we were kept well fed, paid for by the company, of course.
Leadership and compensation are key.
- NeoTar 3y agoSadly it feels that overtime has been eliminated from the industry. Every contract I've ever signed (and this is in the supposedly more worker-friendly EU) has had text along the lines of 'Your working hours are 40h a week. Occasionally you may be required to work more. Overtime is not compensated.' The best I've had in a workplace is an informal policy of time-off-in-lieu for extra hours worked.
- em-bee 3y agois not compensating overtime even legal anywhere in the EU?
- hjadal 3y agoIt is in Denmark, my contract also states that I work 40 hours a week with uncompensated overtime. The only rules creating a cap on my working hours are the EU's, with 48 hours per week on average in a 4 month period.
- NeoTar 3y agoFrom what the Wikipedia page of Overtime says about the EU (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overtime#European_Union https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overtime#European_Union) it seems that the laws are very concerned with working hours, but have nothing to say about overtime being required to be paid or not.