By Susan Fenton
HONG KONG (Reuters) - Chi-Won Yoon likes to leave his office by 6 pm -- 7 pm at the latest.
A banker with Swiss investment bank UBS his day is far from over, what with conference calls with London and New York that will keep him busy until midnight. But he wants to send a message to his staff that it's okay to go home.
For many managers at global companies, 70-hour weeks are becoming the norm. Yet their firms would rather they took Yoon's approach.
A global study in the Harvard Business Review showed more than 50 percent of male executives and more than 80 percent of women executives working 60 hours a week or more said they would not be able to keep it up for more than a year.
Women tend to quit such jobs after a few years, the study shows. Men often stay but more than 40 percent who worked those hours experienced "brown-out" within five years and had lost their creative zeal.
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