About lunch breaks

How long are lunch breaks in your country normally?

Long enough to eat that fine ass.

In school, 2x 20 minutes.
In work life 30min after you worked 4 hrs, then have to work 4 more
In Uni depends.

To be clear, I mean in work life.
Not school.

Mon-Thursday - 1 hour
Friday - 2 hours

For me at least.

Alright shit answer apart, it depends on where you work.

But I'm asking about the norm.

1 hour is the norm.
Both in school and work.

Funny, here in Norway 30 minutes is the absolute norm. I don't even think I've heard of anyone having 1 hour lunch breaks.

>Having lunch breaks
Lunch is for pussies, I drink a protein shake, walk a lap around the building then get back to work.

Really?
Never heard the term "lunch hour"?
Everyone I know have at least 1 hour every day. Plus fika breaks (4x 15 minutes).

I'm talking about work.

School is different. There are breaks all the time there, to serve children.

I'm not talking about school, I'm talking about work.
I've had 5 jobs in the past 8 years.
Never a shorter lunch than 1 hour, never less than 4 fika breaks. (and people go outside and smoke like 10 times during the day...)

Work is like that here. The other swedeanon is right.
I work in an office right now,
>start work 08:30
>breakfast 09:00
>fika nr 1 at 11:00
>lunch 12:30-13:30
>fika nr 2 and 2 at random times after that before days end at 16:30

Wtf is going on. These past days I've slowly come to realize that Norway might be the only country with 30 minute breaks.
Here all jobs have 30 minutes. There might be some odd cases I don't know about with longer breaks, but that would be outside the norm. At least 99% of all jobs here have 30 minutes.

Fika? What do you mean by that?

Lunch is 1 hour

Coffeebreaks (one before lunch, one after) are usually only 15 minutes at bluecollar places.

I'm an office mouse engineer and we're pretty lax and have ~30+ minute breaks. Then again our work can easily overlap with the breaks

>caturday
>lunch break
if you're working a shit end job like that you get 1 hour break during day

>Coffeebreaks (one before lunch, one after) are usually only 15 minutes at bluecollar places.
WTF !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1111111111

>Norway might be the only country with 30 minute breaks.

Everyone is also befuddled with how little you eat for lunch. Sandwich and some sort of Scandinavian tapas is acceptable lunch

>Fika
Coffee break

1 hour and 20 minutes here. Construction worker.

And a couple coffee breaks.

Sandwiches have tons of energy tho. And normally we have the option of eating something warm too, particularly if it's a larger firm, and not some small-time work place.

>1 hour and 20 minutes here. Construction worker.
>And a couple coffee breaks.
WHÆÆÆÆÆÆÆHHH!!!!

I'm this..

To add:
Especially in IT industry we have the standard of flexible work time. Basically we can go to work whenever we want, make as long lunch break as we want as long we finish the tasks and have the workload of 40~ hrs/week. So sometime we go to restaurants on a friday and make a lunch break of 2 - 2.5 hrs if it fits. I like this agile model better than the traditional approach.

30 minutes, but strategic fika breaks dotted out along the day to compensate.

30 minutes a day.

>sometimes warm
>sometimes

I get a headache if I skip out on lunch for just one day

and I'm a very passive, Jeb tier low energy person

And that is the norm, am I right?

Its the norm and the law yeah.

Forgot to add, i can use a system called flex time, which means i can take out up to 2 hour lunch if i need to leave work for that time. but it takes those 2 hours from the flex time i have accumulated by working overtime

>sometimes
Yes. Well, this is more common now than not these days so I guess you can say it's "normally" not just "sometimes".

The sandwich lunch break sits very deep in Norwegians honestly. We eat sandwiches to lunch even if we're at home. I dunno. We love our sandwiches. And we often have salmon for it too. At my workplace we also have whale beef once a week. Lots of options but most of it is suited to compliment the "sandwhich meal."

But are you talking about the norm in Sweden now, or are you just telling me about your own lunch break? I'm getting confused now.

1 hour
tho I sometimes stretch it out and go to the nearby gym for a quick workout then eat my lunch at my desk

I think the norm is different in different industries but I'm used to 30min lunch and two 15 minutes brakes.

You work less than 7h a day?

...

There is no norm in Sweden.
But there is a 30 min lunch minimum by law, BUT all the unions says at least 1 hour should be available so that's what most workplaces got. Unless you got Flex hours.

I work for volvo trucks which is one of the biggest employer in sweden, i'd say that makes it norm.

6 hour work days. Little overtime now and again. But rarely more than 7 hours.
>t. office nerd at Toyota

I see. Why are unions so concerned with prolonged breaks? Is the general idea among swedes that 30 minutes is too little?

In school we only had lunch breaks when the schoolday went past 3 pm and they usually were 50mins long.

At work you have to take at least a 30min break if you work 6 hours or more at any given day.
Other than that it depends on where you are employed.
Personally I can take all the time I need, as long as I work my 40 hours a week.

The unions force the employer to make it an option to have longer breaks not the other way around. Its the employer that fights tooth and nail to cut down on breaks

do swedes even fucking work? I only have an hour if I do 12+ hour shifts

I eat lunch while working

Yeah obviously. Hence my question, why do they care so much about getting longer breaks?

What is the norm in Denmark then, for a normal workday at 7,5 or 8 hours?

See, that's the issue with hourly wage jobs. I get paid a flat salary because I'm a professional. I can take as long for lunch as I please, but the flip side I'm responsible for completing my mission. It's not uncommon for me to work weekends, but I make my own hours.

Because MUH workers party tradition.

Good. An american.

Tell me about the norms in USA. Feel free to be lenghty about it too.

ingenjörscuckar också?

in high tech, I literally take breaks as long and as frequently as I want to

Nej Montör slav..

In the uk I had 1 hour lunch and two 15 minute breaks that I could take at my discretion

In France I had an hour and half lunch with two 15 minute breaks, again, taken at my discretion

In germany I get 40 minute lunch with a 20 minute break which I can't split in half (despite asking) eg 10 mins in the morning, 10 after lunch. Fucking German twots

You don't need to be sarcastic.

That is actually not the norm here; i'm just stating that the idea of a 'lunch break' in the US is synonymous with jobs that pay you by the hour. Professionals do not get paid by the hour.

Yeah, great. But what is the norm in your country. The most normal. What most people have.

I have only had suicide-tier jobs like supermarket, warehouse work and cleaning, but I have had 30 minutes on a 7-8 hour day on all of them. I know my carpenter friends have 30 minutes as well. Maybe comfy government office HR positions just drink coffee all day, wouldn't surprise me

I'm not sarcastic. My whole post was genuine to the last letter. I'd like an american to explain how it's like in usa.

probably an hour-hour and a half

Sounds like you're more like Norway then. Filthy Swedes think they need more than 30 minute breaks. Haha, what are we gonna do about them?

Well, what it is like in the USA... For the vast majority of people in hourly wage jobs you are given 30 minutes for lunch, and with good employers maybe 15 minute breaks every 4 hours. But if you are a person that is highly educated and skilled, hours are far more flexible. For example, let's say you are a butcher in a supermarket; in this instance you'd probably be working from 8 am to 6 pm with a 30 minute lunch and maybe, at best, two 15 minute breaks. In another example, if you are a banker you are expected to be in the office 9-ish and leave 5-ish, and so long as you are not in charge of a trading account you can basically make your own hours. I fit in the latter category, and while I can come and go as I please it is common for me to work weekends or nights.

45 minutes, 12:00-12:45 usually but depends on workplace really. When there's lots of people who cover for each other one can go at 12, then relieve another person at 13 etc. Of course if it's office job no one bats an eye to how long you eat so you might be away for one hour or 30 minutes.

I don't really have lunch at all, bit too expensive

>and while I can come and go as I please it is common for me to work weekends or nights.
So bacially you're worse off than the butcher? I hope at least you get payed a lot more than he is.

45 minutes plus 25 minutes here. We can taket it all at once or split it.

Grocery store.

And how long is your total day?

no, I don't see it that way at all. Perhaps I was not clear about the benefits. Whereas the butcher is in his market for a defined time, he never leaves the market or has any tangible effect on the world. Yes, my hours are strange, but I get to influence major financial decisions, travel, and have access to key decision makers. So whereas I may put in bizarre hours, I get to live a more exciting life.

>why are you on Sup Forums jackass?

Yeah, but maybe he can live an exciting life in his sparetime then, while your work kinda takes most of your sparetime. Sounds like you live your job, which is fine if you like it that way. If I were you I would choose to come to work early enough to make a productive full day, and then go home and have as much as sparetime as I'd like, and at least make sure during my week that I had my weekends free.

Yes, I do live my job. But that's kind of the point. I have a wife and children, but my job (and my wife's) is intertwined to our lifestyle. It's not like I don't have free time (my plan is to play Gran Turismo later today) but the way we work is non stop.

How much time do you get with your children everyday?

two hours and I fucking hate it

What the fuck? Is that normal?

well I woke u with them at 530 this morning, I'm likely to take them for a walk or bike ride mid day and probably put them to bed around 830. My children are basically my only past-time. It's common for me to wake them and make breakfast during the week, but my wife mostly takes them to and from school. Since the weather here is bad I probably won't take them to the park today.

What is "highly educated" in USA?

Just a Master's degree?

well I have two master's degrees. Some of the people I work with have PhD's. My brother teaches at Yale. Is that good enough?

>Is that good enough?
No. It's not bad, but it's kinda mediocre.

sorry we're not all astronauts.

Starting new job on Monday and it's 30 minutes lunch unpaid and two 15 minute tea breaks paid.

>two 15 minute tea breaks paid

8:00 to 16:45 Monday it's 8:00 to 13:00

I have to get up at 6:20 mind you but I only live 20 mins away.

I work 8:30 to 1600. Within those hours I got 30 minutes of unpayed lunchtime. I live 5 minutes away from my job.

We eat at least 8 hours straight and then we have an hour somewhere in the middle when we actually work.

I thought this was the norm everywhere else.

...

30 minutes+30 min for cigs and bullshitting around

Is it normal in norway to not be paid for lunch breaks? I thought you guys would have decent worker rights considering it's a scandi country

I work for an international company, our sw*d colleagues unironically have a 1 hour lunch break.

One hour

1 hour, also we have breaks every 2 hours
And like 1 hour spending chating and joking lol everyday

Why would breaks be payed? It doesn't make any sense. We would have it if it was something that we pushed for. But nobody here really thinks that it make sense to have payed breaks.

to each their own but I don't know any other western european country that does not designate a certain amount of paid lunch time along with annual leave when you have a fulltime contract within a company.

07:00 -16:00.

Usually blue collar labor is 30 min unpaid and then office workers have a flexible hour to go out and eat lunch somewhere.

Yes, I work from 9 to 14 then I have to go back home, cook, eat, wash the dishes and I have some spare time to watch the news, then I go back to my office at 16 and work until 19

Welder here, work in a garage.
I get 1 hour and 30 minutes of paid breaks every day, that includes lunch time. I can split it any way I like.
On Fridays our boss usually takes us to the local steak house for lunch and that can take like 3 hours.

Before this I worked at Ica Maxi (grocery store) and we had 1 hour as well but just normal lunch. And a couple coffee/smoke breaks.

Fuck if I know, we'd always go out and eat and come back. Nobody times your ass.

>On Fridays our boss usually takes us to the local steak house for lunch and that can take like 3 hours.

Sound like my work back in Britain. the company would allow a rotation system whereby different departments/groups within the company can have a 2.5 hour paid lunch once a month instead of 1 hour and would give us vouchers for the local restaurant. Was pretty comfy

same thing in finland. work days are usually 8 hours, but we only get paid for 7 and half fours because of the lunch break

Based Finland.

It's nice for sure.

>They don't work while eating
>They don't love their work
>They don't pull 14-16 hrs shifts

LMAO

Italy, Greece lunch breaks are 4-6 hours

That's not true from what I've heard. Apparently they're super anal about it in Italy.

how many paid days leave do you lads receive in a year?

My work in the uk: 23 days (not including paid sick leave)

My job in France: 28 days (not including paid sick leave)

Germany: 25 days (honestly not sure about sick leave).