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How many hours a week do you work?

Less than 20.

[ 0 ]

20-30.

[ 0 ]

30-40.

17%

[ 10 ]

40-50.

51%

[ 29 ]

50-60.

23%

[ 13 ]

60-70.

[ 3 ]

70-80.

[ 0 ]

More than 80.

[ 1 ]

Total Votes : : 56

Yuri Victor

Contributing editor

Joined: 27 Oct 2004

Posts: 248

Location: Times of Northwest Indiana

Posted:
Mon Aug 27, 2007 3:44 pm

I'm interested how many hours on average people in the news industry work.

Denise Covert

Maestro

Joined: 25 Jun 2005

Posts: 399

Location: Daytona Beach (Fla.) News-Journal

Posted:
Mon Aug 27, 2007 4:54 pm

How much you work depends on how long your lunch is and whether your company pays for it.
Right now, I work 37.5 hours a week, bc we have half an hour lunch unpaid and work an 8-hour shift. Other places, I've had half an hour lunch and been paid for 40 hrs, working 8.5 hrs a day.

I'm not salary, so anything more than that is OT. In my department, OT is frowned upon, and we're encouraged to work flexible hours and/or take comp time so it all evens out in the end.
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Fisch

Secret Agent

Joined: 23 Mar 2004

Posts: 83

Location: Seattle Times

Posted:
Mon Aug 27, 2007 4:57 pm

Well, I generally come in at least fifteen minutes late, ah, I use the side door - that way McTyre can't see me - and, uh, after that I just sorta space out for about an hour. I just stare at my desk; but it looks like I'm working. I do that for probably another hour after lunch, too. I'd say in a given week I probably only do about fifteen minutes of real, actual, work.
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jtelford

Contributing editor

Joined: 09 Mar 2004

Posts: 145

Location: St. Louis

Posted:
Mon Aug 27, 2007 5:07 pm

Yuri Victor wrote::

I'm interested how many hours on average people in the news industry work.

How many hours a week do I WORK, or how many hours a week am I AT WORK?

BIG difference.

When he was here, Chris Snider dubbed breaks at the Post-Dispatch "Telfords" as in, "I'm gonna go take a 10-minute Telford."

Oh, but for any potential future employers out there, it's just a joke.

Really.
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Christopher Harrop

Juke Box Hero

Joined: 22 Apr 2005

Posts: 43

Location: Aurora Publishing

Posted:
Mon Aug 27, 2007 6:59 pm

Some days I'm only on for 7 1/2 to 8 hours. Some days it's between 12 and 14 hours.

My timesheets have averaged between 95 and 110 hours every two weeks, so between 48 and 55 hours a week.

But I do significantly less work between 9 and 11 p.m. than I do between, say, 1 to 3, 3 to 5, 5 to 7 and 7 to 9.... mostly waiting for West Coast Rockies games or marathon council hearings.

Ernie Smith

VizEds Moderator

Joined: 03 Jul 2004

Posts: 726

Location: Linked in Norfolk, Va.

Posted:
Mon Aug 27, 2007 9:30 pm

I don't put in too much more than 40 most weeks (probably between 40-50), though when I was in Bluffton, I put in closer to 60-70.

I think social life plays a big factor. In Bluffton, I didn't really have many friends outside of work. Here, I have quite a few and there's always a lot for me to do here.
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Brandon Dingess

Action Figure

Joined: 15 Nov 2005

Posts: 21

Location: Richmond Times-Dispatch

Posted:
Tue Aug 28, 2007 12:39 am

I'd say I'm coming in at just under 50 a week, but I volunteer for about every overtime shift I can... and presentation is understaffed right now. A lot of it has been the social factor, too - I've only been here a few months and have yet to find a crew with whom to hang out.

All this will likely change, of course, now that my girlfriend has moved here as well.

My last job was at a PM, so it was in at 6 a.m., out at 1:30 p.m. Every day. And it was good.

Ashley Tarr

Juke Box Hero

Joined: 12 Dec 2005

Posts: 49

Location: Moline, IL

Posted:
Tue Aug 28, 2007 9:39 am

Typically, we are told we can't go over 40 hours. Ever. Paid hourly, so they frown upon overtime. But since this redesign launch, I've been having to go over by a few hours every week.
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