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Really? I was one of the last people in the office one time around 9pm because I was just finishing up notes to distribute from a DD call and the only other person there was my Associate who told me to go home lol. We weren't encouraged to stay past like 1830

 

Most people in my group leave around when everyone else in the thread has said. I usually don’t like to plug in from home bc it messes up my flow and I get more distracted at home. Usually leave around 10p-midnight.

 

The responses here are definitely not anyone in Houston… about to be VP and still cranking 90+ hour weeks consistently. I usually leave the office sometime after 11 just to unwind a little and get a change of scenery.

 

Most of my office starts trickling out around ~5:30 pm or 6 or so, depending on when the partners leave.  I am usually gone around 6-6:30ish, maybe 7 or 8 if I am working on something that I don't want to pick up back home.  Work from home in the evening if needed, but being on the principal side of things means our deadlines are usually not as strict outside of Deal/IC sprints.

 

5... AM the next day.

I want to be a hardo so bad, am I doing it right?

 

7pm. Glad many others can head out early too. Makes the job more bearable. 

 

Usually in around 8:30, out by 5:30. That said, generally still working in some capacity through the mid evening if nothing pressing, and almost always have calls of some sort starting at 7 (I'm west coast based)

Definitely has been a shift to being able to work evenings and weekends at home, unless in the scenario there's an all hands on deck fire drill which requires a late weekday night, but in those scenarios the MDs or at minimum D/VPs should be in the office as well.

Certainly a change for the better vs. when I started as an analyst which even at a not too heavy facetime office, had most if not all analysts there until 10-11, and many showing up sundays as well

 

I was getting away with the leaving at 6:00PM then "working" from home thing, for as long as deal flow remained slow for us over the summer.

Once dealflow normalized for us 2-3 months ago we largely reverted to the mean. 

 

Maybe its not relevant in an IB forum but I'm in trading and I get in a 6:30AM and usually get out around 5:30pm, 6pm at the latest. Once I'm out, it's a complete disconnect from work. No logging back in from home bs, although we are not able to wfh at all. 

 

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