[copake_ham]

Are you speaking from experience? I though the Iron curtain went down 15 years ago, nowadays employers can't get away with such crap?

I think you will find that the people who are employed in "The City" work considerably longer hours than the average factory bloke. With a blackberry your never far from the office no matter where on the planet you are at!

My wife manages staff in NY, London, HK and Tokyo. They conduct regular global conference calls which means at the same time some folks are home either before or after "workday" and others are "in the office".

We who work for paychecks are not all time clock stampers.