Quote:Interesting, I never knew, thanks for the info.


Of course, I wonder of those 47 hours, how many are spent actually working...


I'd venture we start to fall off a bit there.

 

I can only speak as far as my personal experience.  I've worked in a couple of positions that were salaried positions.  There were many times that I worked 60+ hours, but part of that included 1-1/2 to 2 hour lunch breaks for example when we were entertaining clients.  Other times it might include working in the evenings or on the weekends at home writing software or documentation.

 

However, the offset of that was having the luxury of being able to take time off (paid) to do other things such as go to a doctor appointment or get my vehicle serviced.  There was also other times when work "slowed down" so me and my colleagues would go out and play a round of golf in the afternoon (paid).

 

I would guess on average out of 60 hours in a week, maybe 47-50 of those hours were spent on actual work.

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