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Top execs at the Fortune Global Forum shared what time they usually stop working.

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00:00If I'm home I set a boundary where 6 p.m. I'm at dinner with my girls and I
00:05promise them that every night. So from 6 to about 8 when they're going down I'm
00:10really locked in there. Unfortunately I don't really stop working. Afternoon I'm
00:15always busy, I'm always picking things up, I'm always running and then at night I
00:20might have an event or get invited over somewhere or have to fly out. I'm not
00:24sure anyone here could answer that question truthfully because you never
00:29really stop completely. Most of the time 7 p.m. before dinner. You know in the old
00:33days you'd go to work and you'd come home now it's more like a fabric that's
00:37intertwined and I probably go to bed by 11 and so in that through the day I'm
00:42kind of working and intertwining it with personal stuff just because when you're
00:49global business the clock never stops. I stop when I am tired enough that I'm no
00:53longer productive. So my objective is to be asleep by 10. I have not yet
00:58hit that objective. My day ends normally after a work dinner so I often have work
01:03dinners as well so it's a long day. I stop working every day when it's evening
01:09for the stakeholders that I'm talking to around the world. It could be midnight
01:13because it's 12 noon in Asia or it could be 5 p.m. In the U.S. I try to stop kind
01:19of with dinners finishing at 8.30, 9 o'clock so that I get some sleep and then
01:24in Europe I tend to work relatively late so usually until 9 10 o'clock. It
01:28depends what you call work so for me it's a joy being around people and I
01:34seldomly stop doing all of that until it's time to sleep.

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