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My experience in the US is the same. 9-5 is just a saying. More typically a work day is 9-6 or 8-5 to account for a 1 hour non-paid lunch.

Nicholas_C 12y ago
I'm not really sure where the term 9-5 came from considering I've never had a job or known anyone who actually worked 9-5 with a one hour lunch.
- pmjordan 12y ago
  7.5h of work with 30 mins lunch break is fairly common in Europe; when my wife was an accountant in London, she had that schedule. In the UK, the typical hours for that would indeed be 9-5. (In some parts of Europe, 8-4 seems more common)
- eigenvector 12y ago
  7.25 hours of work plus 1 hour of unpaid lunch and including 0.5 hours of paid breaks is the standard in the Canadian public sector. That is, 9:00 am to 5:15 pm, 7.25 hours of which are paid and 6.75 of which are spent working.
- antjanus 12y ago
  Yeah, it's what annoys the crap out of me. A 9-5 week means you worked 7 hours a day. That's a 35 hour week. :/
  - stuaxo 12y ago
    Pretty sure that's all I get to bill for at my current client and about what I work.
  - collyw 12y ago
    Huh, why does that annoy you? Too little or too much? That seems kind of normal to me (well less and less so). Anywhere between 35 and 40 hour week I would class as normal (though the trend is towards 40).
    - antjanus 12y ago
      Oh, it's totally normal. What's annoying is that the saying is "nine to five" which is supposed to represent "full time" while it doesn't whatsoever. In the US (at least for office jobs), full time is 40 hours, either 8-5, 9-6, or somewhere in between. Because of the 1 hour break. I think that 9-5 is a total acceptable amount of time to work.
- k-mcgrady 12y ago
  The majority of retailers seem to open from 9am-5pm in my experience with workers showing up 10 mins before opening.
Bahamut 12y ago
I've never had that - 9-5 from my experience meant working 7 hours with a 1 hour lunch. Of course YMMV, but I don't take any employer seriously when they say otherwise - if they want to raise hell, I'd probably just walk.

Nicholas_C 12y ago

I'm not really sure where the term 9-5 came from considering I've never had a job or known anyone who actually worked 9-5 with a one hour lunch.

pmjordan 12y ago
7.5h of work with 30 mins lunch break is fairly common in Europe; when my wife was an accountant in London, she had that schedule. In the UK, the typical hours for that would indeed be 9-5. (In some parts of Europe, 8-4 seems more common)
eigenvector 12y ago
7.25 hours of work plus 1 hour of unpaid lunch and including 0.5 hours of paid breaks is the standard in the Canadian public sector. That is, 9:00 am to 5:15 pm, 7.25 hours of which are paid and 6.75 of which are spent working.
antjanus 12y ago
Yeah, it's what annoys the crap out of me. A 9-5 week means you worked 7 hours a day. That's a 35 hour week. :/
- stuaxo 12y ago
  Pretty sure that's all I get to bill for at my current client and about what I work.
- collyw 12y ago
  Huh, why does that annoy you? Too little or too much? That seems kind of normal to me (well less and less so). Anywhere between 35 and 40 hour week I would class as normal (though the trend is towards 40).
  - antjanus 12y ago
    Oh, it's totally normal. What's annoying is that the saying is "nine to five" which is supposed to represent "full time" while it doesn't whatsoever. In the US (at least for office jobs), full time is 40 hours, either 8-5, 9-6, or somewhere in between. Because of the 1 hour break. I think that 9-5 is a total acceptable amount of time to work.
k-mcgrady 12y ago
The majority of retailers seem to open from 9am-5pm in my experience with workers showing up 10 mins before opening.

Bahamut 12y ago

I've never had that - 9-5 from my experience meant working 7 hours with a 1 hour lunch. Of course YMMV, but I don't take any employer seriously when they say otherwise - if they want to raise hell, I'd probably just walk.