I worked for well over a decade in a US +100y.o. global research company, who famously kept everyone working during the depression. Famously, 8 hour work days with summer work hours reduced to roughly 7.x hours because the founder respected workers and family life. Half hour for lunch, variable depending on responsibilities, excellent on-site food, a barber shop, other amenities. Significant Christmas bonus, mostly shut down over holidays, pension later 401ks. I would arrive at home at 4pm after full day in the summer and a half hour commute - and still had until after 9:30pm to garden, home projects, before the sun set. Bottom line, things got done but Wall Street doesn't take kindly to that kind of giveaway nor freedom to employees and forced a buyout. Of course I understand noone cares what I think, but I had the greatest personal and professional recognized successes and triumphs in that very environment, freedom coupled with discipline, and I simply cannot understand people's point of view when they talk of longer hours.