I found an interesting article on Financial Times last week. The report says Goldman Sachs analysts complained hard work over 95 hours a week and some executives reacted sympathetic, and others were critical about such a young voice.

I fell that situation is quite common among financial companies, including even in Japan.

Even for me, I had worked near 90 hours a week, when deals were busy. Though it is impossible to do so every week, there are sometimes cases; “no choice but to do”. This is responsibility for the position.

And on severe business scene, it can be understood the comment in the article “go the extra mile for our client, even when we feel that we’re reaching our limit”. As long as competitive society, such a view continuously would be supported.

But we need to be careful when hard works are forced. It is just mistake of staffing. There is absolute difference between company relying on employees’ long hours work and staff voluntarily working hard. Its operation is up to management of executive and workers should think back on whether they are “slave”.