There are rumors that the bank wants to push everyone to a 9 hour workday. Please can anyone chime in if they heard the same? I would hate to work an extra hour for the same pay.
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We Work More Hours Than We Record or Report
In engineering, the notion of working 7, 7.5, or even 8 hours has never reflected reality—those numbers exist only on paper. Perhaps they apply to non-exempt employees who receive overtime, but for the rest of us, the reality has been different for decades.
The shift began long ago with electronic connectivity, and once dial-up modems, ISDN lines, cable, and fiber became widespread, our homes became extensions of the office. We let work invade our personal spaces more than 20 years ago.
The front-office and administrative teams may have adhered to standard work hours, but for engineering and technology teams, those limits never existed beyond HR documents. We never receive overtime compensation—at best, a comp day at our manager’s discretion. Even today, we're logging 8–10 hours a day on average, and with cell phones, we are fully integrated into work 24/7. Covid period just made it the new normal.
Here’s the real issue: our phones are always on, and when work calls, we can’t just say—"Oops, the office is closed, call me back at 9:00 AM." These extra hours go unregistered, unless a manager acknowledges them and lets us leave early or come in late on occasion. But on paper, we only worked 8 hours.
Managers keep insisting, "Record your actual hours," but everyone knows that doing so triggers complaints from Project Managers about exceeding budget allocations. The unspoken rule remains: never charge too much, never charge too little.
The entire concept of time-booking is flawed—a system that pretends to track work but in reality, ignores the actual hours we invest daily.
So @OP it is the new reality - In fact 9 hrs is too less would be the answer from upper management :(
I work 8 to 6 with a 3 hour commute when I have to go into the office. It’s been this way for over a year since we’ve lost 3 coworkers from a team of 6. Another just gave their notice. I can’t imagine doing this 4 days a week starting in September but have no choice. Got to pay the mortgage and I’m not getting any interviews.
So because you’re an id*ot . You’re mad others aren’t? Got it .
I work from 7-6PM every day. I see people come in at 10 and leave at 3:30 and have no sympathy if/when network activity duration starts to be tracked.
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😂. Please tell me you’re making that up.
In the words of the new chief wealth Officer: we don’t want you working 12 hours day because you think we want you too… we want you to work 12 hour days because you want to and you think it’s best for the company.
Why are are you working 11 hour days for a company that treats you like garbage and will get rid of you at the drop of a hat
Additionally, you have no idea what hours those people are working….. my own business
I work from 7-6PM every day. I see people come in at 10 and leave at 3:30 and have no sympathy if/when network activity duration starts to be tracked.
Bleed us dry. 20 years ago it was a 35 hour week. 15 years ago 37.5 hours. Then 40 hours. With no raise unless you happened to be OT eligible. They gave them raises until they all got laid off.
Why would they reduce the hours you work to 9? You know we're all working waaaaay more than that already to pick up the slack of the people they can't / won't backfill.
They stretch it out so they get away without paying you overtime.
I had an 8hr work day with 1 hour for lunch. Now, it’s a 9hr work day with 1 hour for lunch. They stretch out the work day without paying extra so your hourly rate actually goes down. Overtime doesn’t kick in until the 9th hour now vs. after the 8th hour. Of course this benefits the company, not the employee, but no surprise there.
Dear Eliza, Why can’t we just work 10 hours a day, 4 days a week and WFH one day then? That way we get better work life balance and only have to come into this ugliness 3 days a week.
Eliza- I am reporting you to HR for insubordination
I haven’t heard but could see it happening… A few years ago, they moved PIttsburgh people from 37.5 to 40 hours & New York from 35 to 42
“ to make everybody consistent”
No extra pay & is not in line with the offer agreement I have in writing which states 37.5 hours
in india the standard is already 42-45hrs a week. in US that would never happen because no other company has mandates yet so BNY wont until they do
What country are you based in ?