Kinda wish people would use common sense when lawyers and business men talk about working 80 hours a week.
After working 7 hours, your productivity drops. Working 80 hours a week is just going to result in the person burning out. Either they're doing a job that doesn't require skills, or they're padding the hours.
Within firms and contractors, it is the latter. Projects will charge based on the amount of resources required (time and the rank of employee). shyt like having an thought in the elevator will be regarded as a billable minute.
Think that the people earning ridiculous money have convinced people that they're doing backbreaking work and long hours, when they're not.
You make a good point.
I work in finance.
And if I'm meeting with clients, I'd leave the office, go get a shapeup, go get my shoes shined, and go to a two hour client lunch, and bill four hours of the day to the client.
There would be times where I would have to meet a client at the golf course in the middle of the day. The time, gas, and golf fees are being expensed or charged directly to the client.
We do charge a lot of frivolous time to work time.
To be fair, I'm obsessed with efficiency. So I can do in a good 6 hours what would take someone else about two days to do.