Summer Hours: How does your job work it?

The company I work for is going to be implimenting "summer hours" but the way they're doing it seems a little strict to me.

The details:
You must come in at 8:30 (instead of 9am) Mon-Thrus and then on Friday you get to leave at 3pm.

Additionally, it's solely up to the discression of the department head which Ok, I get, but some DHs have decided that only some of their employees will be able to take advantage of the program and they can only do it if the alternate with other members of the department.

Apparently they feel someone should be here until 5 regardless. Oh and the program is starting July 7th and going until August 29th.

I've never worked for a company who did summer hours this way. What I'm familiar with is you work 9-5 M-Th and then on Friday you could leave anywhere between 12-3pm.

Is this the norm?

Message edited 6/5/2008 2:29:55 PM.

Re: Summer Hours: How does your job work it?

My dept doesn't have summer flex. Another dept here doesn't exactly have it either, they just get the option to work 8-4 instead of 9-5.

At DH's job, they get 32 hours of summer flex time for a set period. They may take no more than 8 hours per week at their descretion.

The rules at your place seem a little strict.

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Message edited 6/5/2008 2:48:41 PM.

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Ours is similar to yours. You work with your "back up" usually the person who sits next to you, and the week that you get to leave at 1, you have to make up those 4 hours (i.e., come in at 8) and you CANNOT call in sick on a day where you were to leave at 1, you lose your privledges then.

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I've never had summer Fridays but, all of my friends that do work longer hours during the week to get off earlier on Friday so their total hours for the week end up being the same - they are just distributed differently.

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We have flex hours here to start with, evwn though our official open hours are 9-5. We all work anoffical 7 hours, with 1 hour for lunch ( although soem of us stya longer).

So, everyone has to add on an extra half hour M-TH, either at the beginning or end of the day, and it hads to be cleared wit the manager & it is supposed ot be consistant.

I work 9:30-5:30, so for the summer I work 9-5:30, which gives us an extra 2 hours a week.

On fridays we all work 9-1 (no lunch), which is actually 3 hours off. The company offically closes at 1, and the vpoicemail is changed ot reflect that ,. Most of our customers are not around on Fridays either, and it is not a busy time of year for us.

Other places in the same industry have done it where you could get every other Friday off entirely, so there would always be someone there, and they didn't have to make up the hours during the week.


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Message edited 6/5/2008 3:13:03 PM.

Re: Summer Hours: How does your job work it?

At our company you put in an extra 15 minutes a day and get out an hour early on Friday. It was started a few years ago for summer but the president decided he liked it and kept it year-round.

It's up to each employee if they want to come in 15 minutes earlier or stay 15 minutes later.

They are pretty chintzy about the time-clock thing overall though, even if you're salaried. We work an 8.5 hour day with a half hour for lunch. You have to "declare" what your hours are (15 extra minutes early or late) and you're expected to be in or stay until the declared time. Doesn't matter that I put in an extra hour and a half on Monday in overtime, I still have to put in those extra 15 minutes Tues - Thurs. if I want to get out early on Friday I tacked on the time at the end because I never get out at the regular time anyway, so there was no way I was coming in early and still staying late.

Re: Summer Hours: How does your job work it?

Posted by KLSbear

At our company you put in an extra 15 minutes a day and get out an hour early on Friday. It was started a few years ago for summer but the president decided he liked it and kept it year-round.

It's up to each employee if they want to come in 15 minutes earlier or stay 15 minutes later.

They are pretty chintzy about the time-clock thing overall though, even if you're salaried. We work an 8.5 hour day with a half hour for lunch. You have to "declare" what your hours are (15 extra minutes early or late) and you're expected to be in or stay until the declared time. Doesn't matter that I put in an extra hour and a half on Monday in overtime, I still have to put in those extra 15 minutes Tues - Thurs. if I want to get out early on Friday I tacked on the time at the end because I never get out at the regular time anyway, so there was no way I was coming in early and still staying late.

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My summer hours are Mon-Fri 9-4 as opposed to 9-5 and for July and August, I have Fridays off...There is no making up this time elsewhere...It's a perk of working where I do!

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I work Mon- Thurs 9:30-5:30, then on Friday I have the option of working through my lunch and staying until 5:30.

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My company has flex hours all year round. I work 8:15-4:45 with a 45 min. lunch break. One Friday I work 8:15-12:15 and the next Friday I work 11:45-4:45. It works great for the times that I stay out late on Thursdays and want to sleep a little later.

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I usually work 37.5 hours but during the summer- memorial - labor day I only work 30 hours a week and get to take one day off every week. I normally shift the day off I take during the week- fridays are cake at my job so I dont mind being there then. The summer hours arent available to all the staff just management- its a huge perk- it comes out to 15 extra days off.

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We have to make up an hour a day mon - thurs. Usually people will come in a 1/2 hour early and take a 1/2 hour lunch then we get to leave at 12:30 every other friday. !/2 the dept stays and the other half leaeves. Then the next week it's swtiched

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We don't have summer hours. In fact late summer is our busy season.

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We have Fridays off during July and August.

And starting last week up until end of August, we work 1 hr. less, so for most it's 9-4, but I work later some days, so 11-6 (instead of 11-7 or 9-5).


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Message edited 6/8/2008 10:30:24 PM.

Re: Summer Hours: How does your job work it?

My old company we worked 830-5 m-f and then 830-2 on fridays until labor day

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the best i've ever had it is where i am now: 9-5:30 m-thursday and 9-5 on fridays, year round. no set summer hours, though of the people I know who do have them, it's either leave at 2pm on fridays (no makeup time) or every other friday off entirely.

Re: Summer Hours: How does your job work it?

we are doing

come in friday at 8am
leave at 4pm

it's ok- I have had better

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Same 9-5, no difference :(

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If we work an extra hour every day, we either get 1/2 day every Friday or evero other Friday off.
So I work 8am to 6pm to get every other Friday off. Normal hours are 9-6.