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How much of your company runs on uncompensated overtime?

When you look at your company's bottom line.  Where in the ledger does it count unpaid overtime?  Is there a line where salaried employees should show how many hours beyond 40 hours a week they put in? Company : Oh well we are hiring them to get something done.  It's project based.  We don't know.  Did they make the deadline?  That's on them. Yes yes,  but all of that comes down to one item.  Does your bottom line depend on free labor?  Does your profit depend on the dedicated attention to your bottom line for people that are not being reimbursed for it?  Is THAT why people are paid salary?  So they can be worked for apparent deadlines that are artificial in nature?  Why does it make sense to work people beyond the standard acceptable hours and then proudly claim that work as your profit? Company : Competition makes us do it! Well that could be.  It looks to me to be more of a mix of greed and pride.  When you are ...