Working hours are no longer the simple 8-5 kind of stuff they used to be. With globalization and increasing business transactions across the world, the concept of fixed working hours has completely changed. With the working hours tilted unfavorably for anyone in Asia who does business in the US, workers are working increasingly longer hours and not getting any time to recharge in between. The line between working and personal times is completely blurred, which makes it hard to be fully committed to either one. With most of Asia being 12 hours ahead of the East coast in the US, Asian workers have just completed a full days work when they have to deal with their US associates. I think it’s time that professionals set guidelines and limits to what they can do, else it’s going to get really ugly.