Is 70 hours a week overtime?
In California, overtime is any hours worked over 8 hours in a day or 40 hours in a week. Unless you meet an Exemption, California requires that all hours over 8 in a day or 40 in a week or worked on the 7th consecutive day of a work week be paid at 1.5 times an employee’s regular rate of pay.
How long is too long to commute to work?
With traffic, it could be 1-hour-and-15 minutes. Brutal. I felt my mental state fading. After five long years, I quit and finally started working near my home. Since then, I’ve been living and working within a 20-minute radius and couldn’t be happier. But I’m in the minority.
Can you work more than 48 hours in a week?
Calculating your working hours. Average working hours are calculated over a ‘reference’ period, normally 17 weeks. This means you can work more than 48 hours one week, as long as the average over 17 weeks is less than 48 hours a week. Your working hours can’t be averaged out if you’re under 18. You can’t work more than 40 hours in any one week.
What do people who work 70-100 hour weeks do in their free time?
I worked 80 – 90 hour weeks (sometimes more, rarely less) for 2 1/2 years. There is very little free time with a schedule like that. During the day, I’d smoke a lot and drink a lot of coffee. The coffee gave me a chance to get up from my desk without being spoken too.
Why are people happy to work 70 hours a week?
When people’s best friends and most stimulating encounters are at the office, they’re happy to work late. Their family and personal lives atrophy. Work, not home, becomes the place where people get admiration, and respect. More knowledge-based work. Corporations are now filled with people who use their brains more than their brawn.
With traffic, it could be 1-hour-and-15 minutes. Brutal. I felt my mental state fading. After five long years, I quit and finally started working near my home. Since then, I’ve been living and working within a 20-minute radius and couldn’t be happier. But I’m in the minority.
When people’s best friends and most stimulating encounters are at the office, they’re happy to work late. Their family and personal lives atrophy. Work, not home, becomes the place where people get admiration, and respect. More knowledge-based work. Corporations are now filled with people who use their brains more than their brawn.
How many hours do people work in a week?
Even the 60-hour workweek, once the path to the top, is now practically considered part-time, as a recent Fortune magazine article put it. Our data reveal that 62% of high-earning individuals work more than 50 hours a week, 35% work more than 60 hours a week, and 10% work more than 80 hours a week.
Is the 40 hour work week really dead?
The 40-hour workweek is dead. But people aren’t just working longer hours. They’re holding down extreme jobs —logging 60-plus hours a week and enduring 24/7 client demands, tighter-than-ever deadlines, and unpredictable work flows. Yet strangely, many extreme workers don’t feel exploited—they feel exalted.