Reply To: Working over 40 hours?

[Andrew Garulay, RLA]

Wow! Do I live a sheltered life. I thought the sweat shops were mostly professor lore.

 

I have not worked for a large landscape architecture firm, just a couple of design/build (build with staff, not subs) and small local engineering firms (one owned by a PLS with a Harvard GSD MLA who felt no need to get an LA stamp). That one told me, “if we can’t do it in 40 hours we should not be doing it” when I asked if we worked overtime. One design/build did have me regularly working over 40 in five day work weeks and paid overtime (typically 44-50 hours).

 

What percentage of LA firms are sweat shops?