How many hours in a normal day do you work?

[hans]

Location (country or continent):  Netherlands / North region

Employed or own business: Employed; small firm with large market share in their sector; acquired by international firm

Normal start of work time: 8.00  AM
Normal end of work   time: 5.30  PM

Estimation of time of small coffee breaks (unpaid): 1hour
Lunch or dinner time (unpaid) 0.5hour

Total working time spent in the office in hours a day (this includes the paid time above): 9.5
Paid working time in hours a day (hours in your contract): 8

This is about average where I work. We take long (coffee) breaks; 2x 0,5 hour a day. By tradition we have a coffee break gathering in the canteen, which is quite unusual for offices I guess.
I will often skip breaks in terms of sitting still, unless there is an interesting discussion going on.

We do have some large variation and also a large degree of part-timers IMO. Some have a bachelor/masters study, some have their own private business to worry about and some people have so many vacation hours left from peak seasons they are working 1 day/week less in low seasons (extended periods).

The office is also open on saturdays for support/service, and some minor works. I am usually not in at saturdays; unless I want to get some stuff done and don't want to be interrupted that much (I would typically trade a day in that case)

[ablacon64]

Location: Brazil

Business: Electronic repair

Self-employed

Work Days: Sunday to Sunday (yep, sort of...)

Normal start of work time: ~ 09:00 AM
Normal end of work time: N/A (I usually go until my eyes and head get tired)

Estimation of time of small coffee breaks: 15 minutes 2 times a day  (unpaid)
Lunch time: 15 minutes to half an hour (also unpaid, of course)

Total working time spent in the office in hours a day: I work at home, so I'm always in.
Paid working time in hours a day: Depends on demand.

Vacations: what's that? Does it hurt?

The law here says:
- you don't work, you don't eat.
- 4 hours off between work end and work start time is enough if the wallet is empty.

I'm always doing something.  Sometimes I spend a whole week without new equipments to fix, when that happens I fix old equipment  or salvage components from old boards for selling.

[Strada916]

Location: Western Australia.
Employed. By multinational company in mining.
Job title: underground Geological technician. FIFO 8 day on 6 days off alternating day/night shift.

Normal start time: 05:30
Normal end of work 18:00 vise versa on night shift.
1hour total break time paid (on salary) (enforce by law but not everyone takes it.)
18.75 rostered days on. holidays(paid)
8 days sick leave (paid)
Plus any government allowed days off for things like bereavement.
No public holidays (bank days)ie Christmas, Easter. New years. Yes the mine doesn't stop for those.
FIFO = fly in fly out, paid for by employer.

If you want to know more feel free to message me.

[MasterBuilder]

Location (country or continent):  Ireland
Automation
Controls Engineering

Employed
Salary

Normal start of work time: 8 AM
Normal end of work   time: 5  PM 

Estimation of time of small coffee breaks (or paid) 15 mins
Lunch or dinner time (unpaid) 30 mins

Total working time spent in the office in hours a day (this includes the paid time above): 8.75
Paid working time in hours a day (hours in your contract): 8
average productive working time per day  5 or 6

Holidays: Western European norm.
Occasionally work some longer days about once or twice a month to finish projects, etc. average working week winds up about 42Hrs

Others work longer hours in an effort to make a good impression, this is what Id call "a mugs game".
Cant understand why any salaried employee works more than 45 hours per week, every week.  I would seriously be questioning my chosen employment and profession if this was me.

[VK3DRB]

Location: Australia
Employed. 

Normal start of work time:  8.30  AM 
Normal end of work   time:  7.30  PM

Estimation of time of small (coffee breaks) (paid): 0 hours
Lunch or dinner time (unpaid ): 1.0 hours

Total working time spent in the office in hours a day : 11.0 hours
Paid working time in hours a day (hours in your contract): 7.5 hours

Weekend work: Occasionally (unpaid, but time off in lieu sometimes)

Long hours is not unusual for Australian electronics engineers, especially by those addicted to electronics. Few, if any electronics engineers in Australia are in unions. I know a large company where the technicians are unionised and as a result they earn a lot more income than the engineers who are not unionised.

In Australia, we typically get 4 weeks annual leave per year. I once worked for a place that did not honour the annual leave entitlements. They were even paying out engineers and programmers cash in lieu of them taking leave. I could only get about 6 weeks leave total in the 5 years I was there. The root cause was the PRIVATE EQUITY company who bought the place and incurred a $250 million debt the employees in effect had to repay.

[marshallh]

All of them

[RobertHolcombe]

Location: Australia

Employed

Normal start of work time: 8.00  AM
Normal end of work time: 4.30  PM

Lunch or dinner time (unpaid) 0.5 hours

Total working time spent in the office in hours a day (this includes the paid time above): 8.5
Paid working time in hours a day (hours in your contract): 8

[nihilism]

Location (country or continent): Australia (not Austria)

Employed

Normal start of work time: 7.30  AM
Normal end of work   time: 4.30  PM

Estimation of time of small coffee breaks (unpaid or paid*)
Lunch or dinner time (unpaid) 30 min

Total working time spent in the office in hours a day (this includes the paid time above): 8.5
Paid working time in hours a day (hours in your contract): 8