Interested to know if work on wknds is common in consulting here in the ME ?
From a small sized firm here, where wknd work is quite common here on projects; even proposal days are sometimes pretty intense (65-80 hrs per week), assuming because work load per staff is higher

Can people from diff. firms please comment their weekly hours (project + proposal) + any wknd work

I heard that for the top tier firms, hours during the week are brutal, but weekend work is discouraged for the most part

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Hours generally differ by practice and project, but from my experience:
- Project hours are generally 10-16 hrs per day, with average being ~12 hrs per day
- Proposals are 8-12 hrs per day, with average being ~9 hours and hrs being generally much less intense than on projects
- weekend work is a very hard exception and almost unheard of for proposals (if you do work the weekend on a proposal, there’s typically a VERY good reason, and you would typically take days off in lieu)
- Wednesdays and Thursdays are typically lighter workdays (Wednesday ppl in most cases don’t work after the evening flight, and Thursday is normally an ~8 hr day to start the weekend early)

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Something like OW1 described but add +2 hours on average. Weekend work dependent on a project - can range from almost every weekend to none. Average would be every 3rd I guess

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