[Nyororin]

My husband works in IT, and his hours aren`t that horrible.
I think that really just depends on what you`re working on, and how skilled the people who made the development plan are. If they suck at making development plans, there won`t be enough time, and you`ll be working constantly.

It seems like so few people realize that, and end up blaming the wrong people for their long hours.

Anyway, my husband`s normal work schedule is from 9am to 6pm. Because he manages the in company servers too, he generally stays about an hour later after everyone leaves to check their status, fix problems, etc when it won`t cause trouble with most workers or customers. So usually he leaves at 7pm. So, really like 8 hours work? Because he has 1 hour lunch, and an hour worth of breaks in the day. But because he is there 10 hours, he gets overtime for it too.

So not everybody works like 16 hours a day.

Of course, sometimes he`s busy, usually toward the end of a big project, and will be at work until like 12am, but that`s usually only a couple weeks a year.