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Originally Posted by Muta
Fair enough, that's your opinion. I don't think 5 days a week / 40 hours a week is absurd (in fact, that is completely normal almost everywhere), but that's just me. I love what I do though.
I can agree on the working past 5 thing, no one has to do it of course. But when you're on salary though (not hourly), and you have deadlines, and the work quality isn't terrific... I dunno. This is where I've put in that extra effort in my career, and it's paid off handsomely.
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But a salary is for 8 hours/day. If you're going to expect them to work late - or at least look down on them for not working late - then pay them an overtime rate for every minute they stay past five rounded up to the nearest 15 minutes. Otherwise you're taking advantage of them; profiting off their labour with no benefit to them aside from some vague assurance of future wealth from their sacrifice for the team. Maybe that isn't you expecting them to provide you with slave labour, but it's too close for my comfort. I will not allow my people to work for me for free. If they stay two minutes late, I'm paying them 15 minutes. I'm not interested in taking money out of my people's pockets.
Maybe you allowed yourself to be exploited earlier in your career, but I don't think that means other people need to submit to your exploitation now.
I don't think 40 hours/week with just three weeks off/year (all that's required in Alberta) is standard everywhere else. Is it better than the USA? Probably, but I think it's worse than pretty much every other western country.