It's not entirely true that no one bats an eye lid, although you're absolutely correct that it's going on in the consultancies here. If you're out of the consu

It's not entirely true that no one bats an eye lid, although you're absolutely correct that it's going on in the consultancies here. If you're out of the consultancy firms/big corporates/big gov, it would be considered pretty weird/out there. I recently finished on a project where my company was flying in multiple consultants from Sydney to Melbourne each week. It went on for months/years. I made what I consider a friendship with one of the consultants, and apparently they were putting them up in hotels here each week, while his family stayed in Sydney. The consultants would fly back each Friday, then come back Monday morning or Sunday night and do it all again. Now to say no one bats an eyelid...well, from our side of things, us lower downs viewed it as an example of how much of a joke the consultancy arrangement was and how much we were overpaying them. It also also solidified in our mind how poorly the consultancies treated their staff, and how we would never work for them if given a choice. But we weren't the ones controlling the purse strings. Such is life :)