‘Work’ defined as working for money, and your current schedule. Not including hours spent caring for children and doing housework, but including if you wish hours of necessary unpaid work for your job(s) - such as projects/paperwork you take home to complete by deadline, or the many hours most business owners must spend doing various tasks no one else will.
Details are the main point, although I’m also interested in the poll results.
It fluctuates based on project needs but for the last several months my team has been working 50ish hour weeks. We’ve been trying to cut back lately but it’s been challenging.
I picked 36-40, because I get paid for 40. But really it’s more like 42.5 because I almost always work through lunch.
Since I’m retired, and have been for years, “work” for me is keeping up with SDMB and the internet in general. I count that as zero, which is how I voted.
I work 40 hours but we aren’t allowed overtime and don’t get paid for lunches so it usually comes about between 35 and 40
Currently I’m only working about 16-20 hours per week - got laid off at my main job last month. But I’m going to orientation for my new job tomorrow morning, and should be back up to 35+ hours in the next few weeks.
I used to be salaried, so overtime was expected, to the tune of probably 5-10 hours a week depending on what was going on (I work in IT). Recently, the powers that be decided we should all be hourly (thanks to a class action suit), so now they try to keep us as close to 40 hours a week as possible. I usually wind up with maybe an hour of OT each pay period (2 weeks) these days.
Considering that they kept our biweekly pay the same when switching us all from exempt to non-exempt, it means I got a small raise out of the deal, and I’m working fewer hours, so I’m not complaining 
I picked 41-45. I only get paid for 40, but I’m always there at least a half hour before I’m supposed to. Besides for eating breakfast, I’m doing something work related. I’m rarely there an hour before I’m supposed to be. One, I’m not getting paid. Two, no one else is there when I come in.
40 hours per week with maybe 1-2 hours OT per month.
Mine is a little different. I am only allowed to work officially 40 hours a week or a little more because my consulting company doesn’t like us to be taken advantage of by the client company. That is good except I am an absolutely critical person within a medical manufacturing facility so I am on call nearly 24/7/365 as well. During the week, they have to know where I am even if I am not at work so that limits freedom a great deal. I usually get my first call at 7 am, get to work at 9:30, leave at 6 and then go straight home to take any after hours calls until 9. I only take true emergency calls during the middle of the night but they only happen a few times a year. I have to keep my cell phone on me on vacation as well. I throttle down work during the day based on the number of off hours calls that I get so I may go fishing down the street from work or take long lunches if I feel like it. It ends up being about 40 hours of actual work spread over a very schedule.
I put 66-70 with the following rationale:
M-F: 8am-8pm (60 hours)
Sun: 12pm-6pm (6 hours)
Now, I don’t even have a timesheet as I’m a partner in the business. Realistically those are the “business hours” I try to keep. Depending on what is going down, some nights I may be doing stuff business related outside those hours.
However, I almost always work out of the home Tuesdays and Thursdays (that’s just my preference, I’ll sometimes work from home other days if I want, but I try to keep a set schedule so people know where I am.) So for two of those days I might watch TV for 2 hours or be doing house related stuff for 4-5 hours and do very little work. But I’m available and have my phone, so I also might work nonstop at home Tues/Thurs, it just depends on what is going on.
On the days I am in the office, I might sometimes take a 2-3 hour lunch, that will usually be business related but might turn into a trip to the driving range and then a trip to a bar and I’m out til 2-3am. While technically work related it is not what most people would consider “work.”
So I don’t really “feel” like I’m working that many hours per week, but it does happen and realistically I’m almost always on some “low level” involved in something involved with work. My schedule is really just a reflection of my phone practices. During the hours above, everyone knows I can be reached at my business line at home or at work, or on my cell. Outside of those hours I set my business line at home to go straight to voice mail and my cell phone goes on silent. For emergencies people who need to know my personal line at home which will ring in the middle of the night or they can text message my phone, I have my phone set up to play a loud sound when it receives a text even if the ring volume is on silent. Emergencies don’t really happen per se but before I established those hours I would sometimes get called when I did not want to so by establishing the hours I gave myself some “me” time and people know not to bother me unless they really need to.