I only work 30 hours a week. Any more than that and I'm less productive.

Being at work (for me anyway) is less important. How much I actually work is what I care about. I've been using RescueTime to figure it out

https://www.rescuetime.com/

It also allows me to stop behaviors I want to stop by either knowing I blew time or by using their blocker (rarely do this bc the blocker is REALLY annoying). There are probably a handful of tools that do this - this is the one someone rec'ed to me though.

I'm 25, married and have a child and probably work 50-60 hour weeks between full time employment and freelancing.

It works out as 35 hours a week full time, and freelancing over the other 7 days of the week (if you average it out it's about 3-4 hours a night freelancing - sometimes longer depending on the project).

EDIT: (3 hours later) It's just dawned on me that i'm actually 24.

37.5. I don't believe in 'putting in the extra hours' out with the time I'm paid to be at work, and thankfully my current agency have the same view. Obviously it still happens sometimes, which I'm ok with, but I'd never be happy being at a company where it was happening day in, day out.

My free time is vitally important, and any business that expects you to give that up for free out of the goodness of your heart isn't worth it.

Spending about 40-45 hours per week myself. I agree w/some of the other commenters here that going beyond that generally does not result in more productivity.

~50 hours a week for my job. 10-15 hours a week doing freelance gigs. Right around 65-70 hours a week total. But I'm unmarried, no family.

Job ~ 45-50

Personal Research ~ 10-30 (depending on the week)

Would just like to mention that Treehouse has recently gone back to the 5 day work week.

I work about 30, sometimes up to 45 though, and I pair design a lot in which case I feel a lot more productive than most, we are sat there directly on task almost the entire time and If i feel i'm flagging I can ask the other to drive and sit back to take stock.

I generally work 8:30-5:00 now. I used to work a TON more in previous gigs. I'd say as a whole (off-hour emails, some weeks are more, etc), it's about 50 hours a week.

What I find is that when the culture allows a more reasonable work schedule... the times you DO have to work insane hours for something important - it's clearly VERY important.

I think the key to making this work though is having a company culture that supports it... and making sure those who work don't take advantage of it. If your superiors are the types that email you at 10pm or 2am about stuff... or are always in the office by 6am... it's not going to work. There will always be the pressure to "show face" and there will always be that expectation to work based on how they do.

I have friends that brag about how awesome the work culture is in terms of hours the company allows you to wrk, but still spend too much time there because their boss does... or the fear is that if they are always the first to leave (even though they got there 2 hours before anyone else), they are looked at as a slacker.

The company I work for is leaning towards core hours. 12-2pm M-F, which will be used for meetings, collaboration, and retaining our relationships with each other. Outside of that window, we are trusted that we'll get our shit done on our "own time".

Currently, we are given the flexibility to come in and out of the office as we please, but enforcing that we only HAVE to be available during this 2 hour time block will be a great switch.

I currently struggle with productivity when working more than 5 hours/day. However, I manage freelance work outside of my day job. Having this flexibility will allow me to take breaks when my productivity level dips and pick back up again when it peaks.

I start work about 10am and stop around 6pm, I bill about 20-25 hours a week. So I'm doing work for about 40 hours a week but I guess only 20-25 of those hours are productive.

I'm a freelancer UI designer btw

At this moment I'm working about 40h a week with no schedule. I´m working for objectives and for me it's the best way to be motivated and be productive.

I think almost 72 hours per week. I dont know if I'm 100% productive all the time, its almost like 10 hours of work per day.

I'd say about 50h/week, but I wouldn't say that all of them are 100% productive.

Interesting topic

I work 35 hours a week on average. 20 of those are just on one of our dating websites, http://www.latterdatingsaints.com But that's because there is so much involved to just keep it up and running.

The most important thing is to learn how to manage your time online when you work. It's easy to research too much and not work enough from my experience.

8-5 (40hr/week, 1hr lunch)

I'm an in-house graphic designer at the corporate office and while we have the occasional 4pm Fridays (my favorite!) and are flexible on an individual level for drs appts, etc 90% of the time someone is available during office hours. I think part of it is so we're available consistent hours for our various locations to contact us and part of it because we share an office with an accounting firm with these hours (In the summer, they have modified Friday hours and we do not. Then again, we don't work Saturdays during tax season.).

www.rescuetime.com

You will be amazed how manny hours you ACTUALLY work per week. I usually try the 4h work week (:

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It evens out to 37.5 hours a week. Some weeks I may work a bit more, but we can "bank" hours, so some other days I will go home early. I tend to like working on side projects for myself (not paid) so I might do an extra few hours a week on that during some evenings. I have a little daughter so a lot of my spare time I spend with her and my wife. Work/Life balance is important.

40 I have a family.

Hey, nice approach. I hope it will work out for you. I'm working in a huge company in Germany and we have a strong labour union. Therefor we have a weekly working time of 35 hours and also a system of wages. All in all it is really transparent for everyone. Weekly working hours can only be increased temporarily to 38h or 40h for 3 months, maximum 6 months a year. But only a small percentage of the employees can do these extra hours. If we are working overtime I have to take time off - maximum 4 days per month, if I remember correctly. There is also a warning sytem if employees have more than 30 over hours and a stop at 60 over hours, where there are "forced" to take time off. Coming from an agency prior to that position at the huge company I was sometimes even working on the weekends. Personally I can say that the 35h week is much better now - I am way more productive, motivated and also more creative. So I end up being much more satisfied with my outcome at work and also with my private life. More time for sports, relaxing and most important: time with friends. So I can stronly recommend to try out limiting the working hours per week, but this is a personal perspective. Some colleagues do side projects like renovating a house on their own or doing other creative work. They really enjoy the freedom they have with the 35h week. And people are so satisfied that most of them stay really long in the company - some even celebrate their 25th anniversary at the company.

I wish you good luck and hope it works out for you.

60-65 hours a week for my job and 10-15 hours a week for freelance projects

On client work, about 30. On personal projects? About 30.

I work about 32+ hours a week. I get in about 9:30, and leave at 5, with an hour lunch break each day (i never take a full hour though?!). That's just in-office though - I work from home occasionally and am always checking emails/slack to stay on top of things.

Having said that, not 100% of people's at-work time is actually working. We have table tennis and foosball (hello startup vibe), and a pretty nice view out on the balcony. People need time out from their work to decompress so when they are head-down working, they're really putting in 100%.

The workplace is pretty flexible with work hours and working remotely, too. As long as you get your work done, they're fairly accomodating. It creates a trusting and comfortable atmosphere where everyone is giving their all because they feel cared for.

Between 40 and 60 - really depends on deadlines. Sole designer at a quickly growing company. Print, UI, UX, some marketing, copywriting, little bit of product design, video editing, etc. You get resourceful though :)

Setting up flexible systems to allow us to quickly spin off new product sites, helping out marketing to keep their work looking good and UX-wise solid, working with stakeholders to create products that make sense and work well... there are just a lot of places where you can run into tight deadlines when you're "all over the place" like that.

We work about 40 hours per week when we are light on releases, probably closer to 50 when we are preparing for a release.

IBM does "Summer Hours" where we work 9am-6pm Mon-Thurs and then we leave at 1pm on Fridays. Fridays were reserved for our presentations, file cleanup and then we leave or do some team activity. Definitely nice, but not for everyone. For the commuters, leaving the office at 6 (or 6:30) means you're not home before 7:30/8 and everything (besides restaurants) are closed.

60

CDO in an early stage fintech company.

45-50 hours regular - 60-70 when meeting tight deadlines. Very draining but the companies stage and team size require it so that we can grow.

I work a 9-80 schedule. So, for the first week, M-Th is a 9 hour day. Friday is an 8-hour day. For the second week, it's a M-Th 9-hour day, and Friday is off. I love it, since you can feel so refreshed during that 3-day weekend and I frequently just go camping.

We also have flexible schedules, so if I know I want to take a Thursday off, I just work with my manager and I'll come in on a Sunday/whenever to work.

20-30 hours of my week is actually designing, the rest of the time is split between research, self-improvement, etc. Some weeks we go over 40, but that's the way it goes with a demanding client and tight deadlines.

This depends if you're in cooperative or freelancing.

For me, working as a contractor makes my working hours vary ... more like long day/week and short day/week but giving it an average of ~50hrs if I put it together in a month

I work between 9:30a and 5p, then will get back on and do work sometimes from 10p-12a, or 11:30p-2a. Weekends it's usually just night time work. So around 9-11 hours Monday through Friday, then 1-3 hours each night on the weekend. Minimum hours a week I'd say is around 55, maximum is 70+.

Unfortunately at my current gig I'm sitting no less than 55hrs a week sometimes 60-70. Get in at 8 leave at 6:30 then work a few hours every evening at home. It's draining but I guess you do what you have to when you're starting in a field.

8:30–4:30/5:00 Monday through Friday. Things will occasionally pop up that warrant putting in extra hours, but those are pretty rare; 45-50 hour weeks are the exception rather than the rule for me.

Currently, 8:00-4:30 Monday-Friday. However, our office is starting to pilot a 4-day workweek. My schedule would be 7:00-5:30 for 4 days, plus a day off.

About 35.

9-9:30 ish - 16:30

Currently 8:00-4:30 Monday-Friday :)

I work around 20 hr/ week. But that's just how I manage my time.

According to my contract I work from 09:00 till 18:00. (on a 40 hour contract). But I usually start at 8:45 till 17: 30 - ish with 15 to 30 minutes break