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Is working long hours a sign of dedication or inefficiency?

FUTURE CA (student) (497 Points)

18 August 2013

dear friends, as you all are aware, in the corporate world, it is common to find an employee working upto night 10 or 12 almost frequently. Please tell me whether this is dedication or inefficiency from the employee side.? From the company side is it fair to make employees work long hours? Will it not affect the work life balance of the employee? What are the employee's rights when he is forced to work long hours?

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Madhavi (CA - FINAL) (1342 Points)
Replied 19 August 2013

in my view, as i am working in office, people create a hipe of working late hrs in 90% of cases. Actually fruitful work is only in office working hrs only. above that and any one is working is it is in my sense extra and showing that how hard that work is and how hard they are working.

To be frank there is no work 99% in late hrs, if we plan accordingly. but no one plan like that every work people do at the last moment with "emergency / urgent" as tags.

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CA CS Himanshu Khandelwal (SAP FICO Consultant) (705 Points)
Replied 20 August 2013

In my opninon it is both the things.

As in now i m doing late hours for enhancing my knoweldge after the office hours.

As in during the office hours i am having my own sets of deliverables & during that time i cant experiment with the things.So as a result thereof i am doing late hours.

At the same point of time if i am not clear about any work and before doing that i need to do some research work then it is ineffieceny in my part and to complete the work in the required time frame i need to do late hours.