Despite enjoying my work for the most part, I'm willing to trade less than 25% of my time.
Typical hours worked in a year: 2000
52 weeks - 2 weeks vacation/sick/holiday (most have more) * 40 =2000 hrs
2000 / (365*24)=.228
Seems fair.
Typical hours worked in a year: 2000
52 weeks - 2 weeks vacation/sick/holiday (most have more) * 40 =2000 hrs
2000 / (365*24)=.228
Seems fair.
2400 hours worked + 260 hours commuting (US avg. is 25.5min - probably average higher in startup cities?) Let's say 17 waking hours (even though people who get 7 hours of sleep are proven to be less effective on a lot of fronts, it's certainly plenty common).
(edit: average hours worked/week in US for salaried workers is 46: http://www.prdaily.com/Main/Articles/Most_employed_Americans...)
2660 / 365*17 = 43%
Most average people are expected to work 2080 or 2087 hours a year. Seems a little disingenuous to bump it all the way to 2400 - if you're working over 45 hours a week on average you're over-working, which is far worse for your health.
Even still, using the 17 hour mark and 2087 hours it's 33.6%.
I don't know that I would take their numbers as gospel but to be fair in the tech industry it's probably more accurate when I think of it.
That's the deal. My work/bosses are happy with it. My co-workers seem to begrudge that they're freely giving up extra time and I'm not. I keep suggesting they stop doing that...