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Poll: At what time do you generally finish your business day?
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neilmac
neilmac
Spain
Local time: 09:23
Spanish to English
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Other Jun 13, 2018

When the work is done. That might be at midnight, or later, or 6 pm... or lunchtime....

 
Eckhard Boehle
Eckhard Boehle  Identity Verified
Germany
Local time: 09:23
English to German
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Other Jun 13, 2018

There is no special time to finish my business activities. It depends on the kind and number of assignments and also on other things, like doing housework - domestic chores - pick our daughter up from daycare and go to the playground. So there are quite a few interruptions, after which the work in the office is continued and can last until late in the evening.
But before we had our daughter I even worked nights through if necessary, but that is not possible anymore, as I always have to get
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There is no special time to finish my business activities. It depends on the kind and number of assignments and also on other things, like doing housework - domestic chores - pick our daughter up from daycare and go to the playground. So there are quite a few interruptions, after which the work in the office is continued and can last until late in the evening.
But before we had our daughter I even worked nights through if necessary, but that is not possible anymore, as I always have to get up early to bring her to the nursery, while before I could just go and sleep as long I felt it was necessary.
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Christine Andersen
Christine Andersen  Identity Verified
Denmark
Local time: 09:23
Member (2003)
Danish to English
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Same here Jun 13, 2018

neilmac wrote:

When the work is done. That might be at midnight, or later, or 6 pm... or lunchtime....


I'm a freelancer and by nature a night owl.

In the winter I need to get outside and get some fresh air and real daylight, or I risk getting SAD. That means I go out in the middle of the day, or whenever the weather permits. In December and January, if I blink at the wrong moment, I can almost miss the sun for that day.

Now, at midsummer, I love the light nights… so I may stay up to the wee small hours! Not necessarily working, but if I have been out enjoying the summer, I may have to sit at my computer until after midnight. Then I go and make tea in the kitchen and enjoy the white roses in the twilight, and fall asleep to birdsong, the dawn chorus!

Of course, I rarely start my day early…


 
Maria Teresa Borges de Almeida
Maria Teresa Borges de Almeida  Identity Verified
Portugal
Local time: 08:23
Member (2007)
English to Portuguese
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Other Jun 13, 2018

I’d say when the work for the day is done! Generally I start around 8 a.m. (today earlier than that because I had a project to deliver at 10 a.m. and it still needed some finishing touches) and I’ll stop when the work is done, but the days when I could and would work late at night are long gone…

[Edited at 2018-06-13 10:14 GMT]


 
Anna Herbst
Anna Herbst  Identity Verified
Australia
Local time: 19:23
English to Swedish
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Other Jun 13, 2018

Being in Australia and accepting work from Europe, North America, Asia, Australia and New Zealand means I cover most time zones, so whose business day are we talking about?

 
Peter Simon
Peter Simon  Identity Verified
Netherlands
Local time: 09:23
English to Hungarian
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After 8 PM Jun 13, 2018

as long as I'm awake, I should say, because some (overseas) customers regularly ask me to do something the next day around (or even after) midnight. Well, I don't wait up until so late, but there's almost no full rest even after "the day's work is done" - is there such a thing? I consider my waking hours, checking mail late, as a by-product of being a translator.

 
Marjolein Snippe
Marjolein Snippe  Identity Verified
Netherlands
Local time: 09:23
Member (2012)
English to Dutch
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between 5 and 6 pm Jun 13, 2018

When accepting jobs, I make sure I will not have to work late in order to meet the deadlines. My evenings are for friends, family, sports and other non-work activities. I don't read my emails outside my working hours (9am-6 pm Amsterdam time) either.

Seamus Moran
Hege Jakobsen Lepri
Annamaria Amik
Thiago Assumpção
 
Julian Holmes
Julian Holmes  Identity Verified
Japan
Local time: 17:23
Member (2011)
Japanese to English
Whenever I feel like it Jun 13, 2018

But generally later than 8

Evenings and weekends are quality work time. I'm not distracted by this and that, and I can focus more and work uninterrupted.


 
Kay-Viktor Stegemann
Kay-Viktor Stegemann
Germany
Local time: 09:23
English to German
In memoriam
Later than 8pm Jun 13, 2018

I'm on Central European Time and several of my agencies are on Eastern Standard Time, six hours behind me. When they end their business day on 5pm, it's 11pm in my time zone. I often work until this time. This suits me because I am a night owl too, and I start my working day rather late.

 
Rita Utt
Rita Utt  Identity Verified
France
Local time: 09:23
English to German
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Exactly like Marjolein Jun 13, 2018

Marjolein Snippe wrote:

When accepting jobs, I make sure I will not have to work late in order to meet the deadlines. My evenings are for friends, family, sports and other non-work activities. I don't read my emails outside my working hours (9am-6 pm Amsterdam time) either.


But I do read my emails. And I start early at about 7.30 or 8.00


 
Debora d'Amato (X)
Debora d'Amato (X)  Identity Verified
Italy
Local time: 09:23
English to Italian
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Late Jun 13, 2018

I'm a student, that means I don't have to look after any children or cook the lunch but just respect the deadline, of course. However, I'm used to finishing my business day not earlier than 12 pm since in the morning I've classes or stuff to study

 
Gianluca Marras
Gianluca Marras  Identity Verified
Italy
Local time: 09:23
English to Italian
other Jun 13, 2018

it can be 8 pm
but sometimes 6, or even 5 pm
recently 11 pm


 
Christopher Schröder
Christopher Schröder
United Kingdom
Member (2011)
Swedish to English
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4pm Jun 13, 2018

I see freelancing as an opportunity to work less, not more

Seamus Moran
Hege Jakobsen Lepri
Annamaria Amik
Jeandra Raimond
Louise Péron
 
Amir Arzani
Amir Arzani
Iran
Local time: 11:53
English to Persian (Farsi)
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Other Jun 13, 2018

I currently live alone and don't have many responsibilities, so I usually work until the job is finished usually from around 10 or 11 am to like 2 am with small breaks in between.

 
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