What to do?

[centurian]

"Mind you, those who tend to spend the most hours in the office tend to be those who are least productive"

what complete guff man you would never know as you are away home.

Being in the office for 14 hours and actually working for 14 hours isn't the same thing.

I work solidly for 8 hours - no checking news, cricket scores, sorting out personal matters, buying stuff online etc. I am also rock solid reliable - in every single day at roughly the same time - and that's not just because I am a contractor.

Many of the permies that work long hours, don't actually work for that long - and tend to go off sick every few works because they've burned themselves out.

Sure if there is a problem, I stay late and sort it out. But it has to be a problem that cannot wait until the following morning.

[jmo21]

Basically, as far as I'm concerned long hours aren't a badge of honour, they're a badge of poor performance and/or resource management and/or planning.

Or brown nosers hoping showing their 'commitment' will get them their next promotion.