The strange thing is that I’m something of a workaholic. Over the past 5 years, I’ve probably averaged 12 hours of work a day on weekdays, and 6-8 on weeked-days. That’s just who I am. Yet I’ve tried to never ask an employee to work that hard, and it always sat wrong with me when I was asked to work the hours I was already working on my own. Workaholism is my personal problem, and I don’t want my employeer making it worse.

Interestingly, now that I’m running my own company, my brother and I have tried very hard to make sure our employees are worked very fairly. This works well for about half of our employees, but the rest take advantage of our 8 hour work days by coming in late, taking long lunches and leaving on time. So they are ruining it for the bunch. Perhaps we need to go to 10 hour days just to get the work we’re paying people for.