This is anecdotal, but in my experience, the complaints about "everyone working long hours" is usually a sign of either: a) Poor planning on the part of manage

This is anecdotal, but in my experience, the complaints about "everyone working long hours" is usually a sign of either: a) Poor planning on the part of management, resulting from not enough resources or hires b) Poor market performance, leading to having to squeeze more out of the existing resources to get the results originally projected to the investors Certainly there are people who like to work long hours and there are jobs that will give them all the work they can want, but those typically aren't the people complaining about it.