To those who are in-house: Are you truly satisfied with your work-life balance? Are you regularly working late and/or on weekends?

Try searching this Bowl before posting, someone asks about this almost daily.

It’s not 9-5 but it’s much better than my life in biglaw.

I never work weekends, ever. I rarely work late. Many times I only do 1-2 hours of actual work in a day.

Same as Senior Counsel 1. And yes, I'm satisfied.

Depends on the role. My current role is intense, closer to BigLaw hours. My earlier AGC and counsel roles had great work life balance. At one point, one of my daughters feared I lost my job due to my ability to work from home and pop out for her school functions/sports events. I took on my current more intense role as my youngest neared college. At that point in my career I was ready to take on something with less WLB but worth the extra effort.

Never any weekends, I’ll work late like once or twice a month (largely self-driven), and I spend about 6-7 hours per day in front of my computer M-TH. If I had to quantify, I probably “bill” like 4-5 hours a day. I log off around 1-2pm on Fridays. Very, very satisfied.

Very satisfied with my WLB, rarely work nights, generally don’t even check emails on the weekend.

Obviously, this varies from company-to-company and from team-to-team. I have a friend that went from law school to a small in-house legal department. His boss, the GC, was toxic. He was on-call 24/7, worked through every weekend, and often got calls that woke him up in the middle of the night. I’m at a multinational company with a massive legal dept. I usually work 8:30-5:30. Occasionally, I work an extra hour at night or on the weekends to catch-up. I also some times only work half a day on Friday just cuz. One time I had to take a call at 7:30pm because I had to talk to India legal. I also have flexibility to disappear for a few hours in the middle of a work day and no one would care. And I can take vacation without responding to a single email the whole time.

I think it depends on how established the company and law department are. I worked in a larger department with generally good wlb, but I then moved to a startup with a law department of two (I report to the GC) and I work late most nights and at least a half day on the weekends (most weeks average 60 hours). It's tough and I'm a little burned out, but I really love what this company is trying to do so I'm sticking it out to see if things get better this year

My wlb is excellent. Log on by 9 and log off at 5:30. Rarely busy or overwhelmed, and not a ton of unnecessary meetings. Only worked a couple of weekends last year.