It's pretty hard to find information on work hours for companies. Also since obviously the work hours on a particular day depends if you are in a busy period or not, I think an average across 6 months would be a pretty good estimate.
Some options:<p>1. <a href="https://www.keyvalues.com/" rel="nofollow">https://www.keyvalues.com/</a> is great job board that has some companies that explicitly claim they have work/life balance. The writeups let you see working hours in some cases, for good or for bad; make sure to read them, they all have different definitions of work/life balance.<p>2. You can apply to any company that sounds like it'll be reasonable, and if you get a job offer negotiate a shorter workweek. I've done this, and I also interviewed someone who did this at 7 or 8 different companies: <a href="https://codewithoutrules.com/2018/01/08/part-time-programmer/" rel="nofollow">https://codewithoutrules.com/2018/01/08/part-time-programmer...</a><p>3. Negotiate a shorter workweek at your current job. Actually easier than finding a new job.<p>4. Just... work less hours. I.e. you're at normal 40-hour/week job, and you just work 7 hours a day. If you're good at what you do you'll be just as productive, if not more. I did that involuntarily at some point due to RSI limiting how many hours I could type. No one complained about shorter hours because I was productive enough. Downside is companies often judge you by hours in office, not by output (<a href="https://codewithoutrules.com/2017/06/21/why-company-want-long-hours/" rel="nofollow">https://codewithoutrules.com/2017/06/21/why-company-want-lon...</a>).<p>I cover these and other approaches in my book: <a href="https://codewithoutrules.com/saneworkweek/" rel="nofollow">https://codewithoutrules.com/saneworkweek/</a>
All of them. Some have their butts in their seats for longer than that, but very few employees are generating 7+ hours of productive work on a daily basis for any extended period of time.
In the Netherlands, it's pretty typical to work 32 hours a week.
Over 5 days, that's less than 7 hours a day. Though most people prefer having 8 times 4 and take a day off :)
In Sweden at a big company, your day as a programmer usually has a few meetings and a lot of social interaction with colleagues. Maybe you get 3-4 hours of programming every day if you are lucky and can focus in the noisy open office environment. Im in the office about 7 hours every day. Salary is excellent for Swedish standards and living costs.
Less than 7 hours (6 or less) is typically considered a part time arrangement. If you're a high performer, you can try to negotiate for this kind of situation, but it's rare to start a job with that type of benefit. You should expect to lose a proportionate amount of your salary, (keep in mind that depending on your tax bracket, the percentage hit to your take home will be less affected.)<p>The benefit of being officially on part time is that it sets everyone's expectations and shouldn't negatively impact your promotion trajectory, especially if you're able to fulfill your duties on a part time schedule.