What constitutes 'long' work hours?

Currently work 40 hours a week - until last year more like 50 hours with OT
Whole outlook has changed and trying to cut hours ( and income) so I can do more interesting things ,not jyst sit about.

I know it is a clichéd question but do you reckon anybody who is coming to the end of their lives thought

" Shit,I wish I would have worked longer and harder?"
 
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Junior_BentsPlatformShoes said:
I see Elon Musk has told staff they have to sign up to long work hours with high intensity. When I read the article, he said he expects staff to be in the office for at least 40 hours a week.
Now maybe I'm reading it wrong, but that's 8 hours a day in a working week. That certainly isn't long working hours to me!
My average working day is getting up at 6, arrive at work by 7.45am, then work through until on average 5.4opm. I then do several hours on the laptop over the weekends, so my average working week is probably 50-55 hours, which I would class as reasonably long hours.

What do you class as long, high intensity work hours?

www.bbc.co.uk

Elon Musk tells Twitter staff to work long hours or leave

Elon Musk says workers at the social media firm must be "hardcore" if they want to stay, reports say.
www.bbc.co.uk
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yet this was posted at 3.53pm whilst you work through until on average 5.40 pm from 7.45..... ( hope this was during a contracted break!)
 
Shootz said:
yet this was posted at 3.53pm whilst you work through until on average 5.40 pm from 7.45..... ( hope this was during a contracted break!)
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Was waiting for someone to post that - I'm contracted half an hour either side of the school day and then however long to get the job done, nice and open ended. ( I worked until 5.50pm the day I posted that too)
I've just worked through my lunch hour on the yard with the kids and sitting down for 5 minutes now to eat.
Thanks for your query and concern though 👍
 
Junior_BentsPlatformShoes said:
Was waiting for someone to post that - I'm contracted half an hour either side of the school day and then however long to get the job done, nice and open ended. ( I worked until 5.50pm the day I posted that too)
I've just worked through my lunch hour on the yard with the kids and sitting down for 5 minutes now to eat.
Thanks for your query and concern though 👍
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Glad to oblige
 
Junior_BentsPlatformShoes said:
Was waiting for someone to post that - I'm contracted half an hour either side of the school day and then however long to get the job done, nice and open ended. ( I worked until 5.50pm the day I posted that too)
I've just worked through my lunch hour on the yard with the kids and sitting down for 5 minutes now to eat.
Thanks for your query and concern though 👍
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...you get to sit down to eat.!!! 😁
 
Wizaard said:
Just because people work well over the legal limit doesn't mean its right. Probably because they're not in a union.

And for what it's worth I used to work 77 hours a week in a summer job at Coral Island back in the 70s.

Long term madness.
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On the blue...droopy drawers, 44.
 
Curryman said:
my longest ever shift was when I was Assistant Manager with Crest Hotels circa 1971. I was on the early shift starting at 7 am, and due to a staff shortage had to work through the afternoon shift in reception, which was until 11 pm. To finish me off the night porter didn't turn in and muggins had to cover it. The manager was on a course for a couple of days so I finally finished at 3 pm the following day, 32 hours in all. 90 to 100 hours a week was quite normal.
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Hope you got paid for them at the appropriate rates
 
EPM46 said:
Working hours are those agreed within your Contract of Employment. Any hours worked over and above your basic working week are normally subject to agreed overtime rates. An employer cannot unilaterally change your hours without agreement or subject to a consultation period.
Elon Musk is a numpty if he thinks any employees of Twitter in the UK will simply accept his edicts. He will be working even harder than currently defending cases at an Employment Tribunal.
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Depends on your job and contract and clauses
 
Philbfctrois said:
People are just getting lazy

Generally a normal working week was around 39 hours a week, more in certain industries

But as long as people get paid for what they do it isn't really a problem

I've done a few 70 hour weeks recently with days and night shifts and they are a killer, I would say that's long hours
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It’s the “hard done to, victim society” we live in.
 
Junior_BentsPlatformShoes said:
Some good replies. I’ll add that I don’t want to do the hours I do but if I don’t the job doesn’t get done. If I was going to strike, it wouldn’t be about pay, it would be about the ridiculous levels of paperwork and accountability that we’re subjected to that detracts from the job of educating children.
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That's why I left 3 years ago after 30 years of it. Sometimes 60 to 70 hours a week. As my own boss now, I simply love that when I finish my "official" work, I (more or less) finish working for the day 🙂
 
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