Looks like the 80-hour work week thing has caught on. American investment banks want this as norm. As someone who has lived in that universe, let me say that that corporate leaders have gone into silliness. There are indeed spikes in work where such hours are needed, and well-paid professionals should be willing to do this. However, making this "norm" suggests that this is some kind of target. The reality is that enforcing this and maintaining quality suffers a moral hazard monitoring problems. In investment banks with such culture, professionals just beging doing their personal stuff in office hours - go to gym in office-hours, long lunches, meeting friends dubbed as "meetings" and so on. City of London and Wall Street runs like this. A few sincere souls actually do the 80-hour norm and burn out. Only very senior managers can sustain 80-hour work weeks because systems are built to sustain them (not just the pay but secretaries, assistants etc). The rest need a life....