This won’t surprise many of you experiencing it first hand but finance professionals around the world are working longer hours…on account of being employed by understaffed and under-resourced companies. But if you think it’s bad here, be glad you aren’t American.

A survey carried out by CIMA, found that among its members, the working week averaged at 45 hours with south-east Asian professionals putting in an average of 48-50 hours while US professionals worked the longest, at 50 hours per week.

Americans do boast higher bonuses though – averaging around 19% compared to the UK’s measly 4% or less!