So with the sector facing yet another financial crisis, do we all just get on the grindset straight away? Put your snowflake-y demands for a work-life balance on the back burner. Take one for the team. Pull that working weekend, that all-nighter. Let’s face it, you’re not even going to do anything as a result of reading this article. You’ll clock off at around 8pm, do your emails in bed, get up early tomorrow for one more run at the backlog. Because that’s what we do.

David Kernohan (2024-09-15). Why do we all work such long hours?

No.

Just, no.

Organisations become what its members tolerate. When it comes to our working culture, we have a choice.