I believe in wresting back any amount of control/time we can from the system.

So my job has me coming in at 8:30-9:30am and leaving at 3:30pm every day, thanks to training my boss and working the system.

And honestly I am switching to a hybrid WFH job because even this is too much office time.

They don’t give me a window, so I am letting myself get recruited elsewhere.

Yes. I do. Dealership mechanic. 9-5

I work from 8:30 to 16:00 with a half-hour lunch break, so 7 work hours per day.
It’s paid as a full-time job.
If I collect too much over-time, I get a stern talking-to from my supervisor, who could otherwise get in trouble with the works council and the owners (cause they’d get in trouble with the union and the law). So I make sure to go home on time.
I have 42 days of paid time off I HAVE to take, plus unlimited sick days.

I could have made 50% more by chosing a different employer, and 3-4x as much in the US.
But why the hell would I? I’m able to save up 1/3 of my take-home pay as it is, and that’s after pension and healthcare are accounted for.

I currently work 8:00 to 16:00 and no one has complained about my working hours yet. But, I’m a software dev working remote with coworkers in several different timezones, so the exact time I start and end my day really doesn’t matter.

At a previous job I worked 9:00 - 15:00 for several months when I was depressed and no one complained about that either. 🤷

In the technology department for a fortune 500, we should be 9-5 and another team next to me is basically doing that but I’m somehow overloaded and having to do catch up at night or be on call. Also we do our deployments at night as to not disrupt operations, so that eats into my personal time.

Kinda annoyed at it since my last job I stopped thinking about work once 5pm hit

If I wanted to I could do 9h to 17h, but 8h45 to 16h45 fits better with my commute, so I go with that.

Nobody wants that, but it still beats working 09:00 - 21:00

When I started my current job it was a proper 9-5 with a half hour paid lunch.

They’ve now switched us to an hour unpaid lunch, but everyone basically just ignores it.

And in both cases many of those hours are downtime.

There are still some of those that I’m familiar with, mostly entry-level white collar professional jobs like “receptionist” or “desktop IT”.

Beyond that, the 9-5 is dead, though. A lot of the rest of American white-collar jobs are 24x7 where you’re expected to respond to slack or email within a few minutes all day, and probably also be in the office 8-10 hours per day. And working-class jobs have all moved to unscheduled part time nonsense where they’ll give you 29.5 hours a week (to avoid having to give you benefits), but won’t tell you which 29.5 hours until the last possible moment.

Kind-of. Researcher in EU, the funding source on paper mandates 7.6 hrs of work per day, so with lunch breaks it is almost exactly 09:00 - 17:00

Depending on whom you ask academia may or may not be considered a real job though… and my hours may be nice, but the folks who do experiments rarely get the 9-5 as stated on paper, and there are other aspects of the job that are much more fucked up

I’m at the office between 9 and 5

Drop a deuce at 10. Work gets done 10:30 to 12:30, take lunch, then fuck around pretending to work til 5

Not in the US, 38-40 hour weeks are realistic in eg. Germany.

I attend a place of work from 0700 to 1600.

Do I work in that time?

Yeah, why not…

In France it’s more like 9 to 6 with one hour to eat, and no paid overtime. We’re fucked.

Software dev in Spain.

On paper it is 9:00 to 17:00, but we have flexibility to enter and leave.

In practice we do 9 hours Monday-Thursday and 6 on Friday.

8 hours + 30 min for lunch + 30 min to leave early on Friday.

I do 8:00 to 17:00 and 8:00 to 14:00.

This is not in all companies, my previous employer was like that, but I have friends on other companies for the same sector that do 9:00 to 18:00 every day, with one hour mandated for lunch.