We'd both heard about the brutally long working hours, but what surprised us was how people prized the number of hours they clocked, even when this went up to a ridiculous 16 hours a day.
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The President: I'm here at the FEMA Headquarters where I just received a briefing, and I've also come to thank the people behind me for working the long hours that they're doing to make sure that we've got the preparations in place for Hurricane Gustav.
At first sight, the reason why long working hours have started to fall appears straightforward.
The notion that working long hours and not taking holidays makes for a more productive workforce is, in my view, a managerial myth, with no foundation in organizational or psychological science.
Having done both he does not recommend working from home exclusively, recognising the benefits of interacting with people in the office and the pitfalls of working long hours at home to keep up.
Or there may be something in the Japanese caricature of the salaryman husband working long hours and socialising all night and at weekends, while his neglected, fretful wife struggles to bring up the children at home.
The proposed new taxes would fall only on the working wealthy who put in long hours to run businesses and employ Americans.
The vast majority hail from India, Bangladesh and Pakistan, working long hours for little pay in the construction industry.
Because of the country's culture of long working hours, husbands with good jobs spend little time at home and expect their wives to cope with all domestic tasks.
For the few weeks before and the few weeks after launch we were working long hours, but once it was up, traffic did not grow.
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But a culture of long working hours and distractions inside the house, such as computers and televisions, meant that families in the UK spent less time together.
The cruise lines are working their crew members excessively long hours and paying them extremely low wages.
Nicknamed "The Bulldozer" for his stamina during meetings and long working hours, he had not been in ill health.
The decline has been concentrated amongst men working very long hours.
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Australia also ranks poorly in terms of work-life balance with more than 14% of employees working very long hours, well above the OECD average of 9%.
They are young people from the country who have never been away from home, working long hours, and feeling alone and vulnerable.
Over the past three decades, they came in waves, working long hours in sweatshops, construction sites and assembly plants, enduring poor working conditions in order to save a little cash to remit home.
The apparel industry employs plenty of Americans, just not in the cutting and sewing operations that our parents and grandparents endured, working long hours for low wages.
Yet increasingly, relatively humdrum, time-consuming tasks, which would once have been foisted on ambitious but inexperienced young recruits, working long hours to earn their spurs in Wall Street or the City of London, are, thanks to the miracle of fibre-optic cable, foisted on their lower-paid Indian counterparts.
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But when I was working in the area of investment banking I was putting in very long hours and it became increasingly clear to me that if I was devoting that amount of time and energy to something, then I wanted it to be devoted to something that would have a bigger and positive impact on the world.
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Attorneys, who are both arguing this case and deciding it, have a tradition of working long hours as new associates with no overtime until they pass the bar exam and can be licensed.
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After several years of working long hours at below-market salaries, workers want to see the fruits of their labor.
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Poorer children frequently have no one to look after them in the long hours between the end of the school day and the end of the average working day.
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So long as only insomniacs and travellers want to buy car insurance at 3am, working in the dead hours will probably continue to be the lot of only a small minority of workers.
For several weeks the newspapers have been running stories about soldiers with "rotten crotches" - a casualty of working long hours in dirty water.
They said pressures from working long hours on assembly lines, usually 10 to 12 hours per day, discontent about the crowded dorms and military-like discipline were all likely contributing factors to the violence.
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Under a 1950 ruling by the Supreme Court, companies cannot ban union-related solicitation in work areas so long as it is conducted outside normal working hours during coffee breaks or lunch hours, for instance.
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