If you feel you spend long days at the office and put in an excessive number of work hours a week, you have plenty of company. The good news is that it isn’t as bad as it was just a few years ago.
The majority of senior executives and managers now spend 10 hours or more in a typical workday, based on a new survey by NFI Research. For these business leaders, the 40-hour workweek is only a memory, with the majority working 51 hours or more a week.
In 2003, when we conducted this same survey, 70 percent of executives and managers were spending 10 hours or more a day, compared to 58 percent today. At that time, 65 percent were spending 51 or more hours a week at work, compared to 58 percent today.
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