How many hours should a business work per day? I remember back then while I was still working as a photo editor, we normally open as early as 7am and in most cases I resume by 6am just to sort out pending jobs. While we close around 8pm then on certain days 10pm. We don't normally have breaks, the only breaks we got was when there are no customers to attend to. While others in the same field as where I worked usually open around 9am and close 5pm or 6pm