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In Austria and Germany ~40h/week work weeks are common even for developers (lived more than 8 years in both combined and worked as a programmer in several compa
by ido 13y ago
In Austria and Germany ~40h/week work weeks are common even for developers (lived more than 8 years in both combined and worked as a programmer in several companies almost this entire time). Usually If you work more than 40h in one week you can compensate by working fewer hours in the next one.
I think this is common to all EU countries, save for maybe the UK (don't know, but they seem to be a bit less socialist than continental western europe).
- Xophmeister 13y agoThe EU's Working Time Directive provides a right to work no more than 48hrs per week. In my experience, while I agree that here in the UK it's a little less socialist, I believe it's rare to see excessive hours. Most (anecdotally) office workers work around 40hrs/week; including developers and engineers.
- wastedhours 13y agoI'm in the UK, do 37 hours, home by 4.45 each day, don't let anyone tell you you need to work every hour in the day to succeed.
- GotAnyMegadeth 13y agoSame here, apart from I'm home by 6pm, but I cruise in at 10am
- hobo_mark 13y agoA hearty fuck you on behalf of all European engineers doing unpaid overtime :)
- wastedhours 13y agoAnd a hearty fuck you you should give to those making you do unpaid overtime :)