Does anyone know how much work corporate executes actually do? I imagine it varies quite a bit, but do they tend to work really long hours and travel a lot? Or are most executive jobs pretty cushy?
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This doesn't address your question directly, but executives do enjoy more air conditioning than the working class in general.
Executives at small-ish companies? Yes, long hours. Including weekends.
To be an executive like that, your job must be your life. You can't even question that assumption, or you aren't qualified for the job.
My experience with aerospace execs is that they work long, hard hours, travel extensively, and "live" their jobs.
Ben Bateman's reply above is correct.
Given from some exprience and people I've talked to:
1) All firms I have worked for VP's and above travel a lot and the time requirement is at a minimum 40 hours.
2) Another co-worker spent somtime at one of the international contracting firms (not Hallaburton), the nickname for the corporate execs was "the zipper club."
3) When the dad-unit worked in radio, the CEO divorced his wife when his kids turned 18 and moved into a apartment across the street from his office.
The executives at my company travel extensively. I work for an international company, and the executives sometimes have conference calls in the middle of the night to accomodate the different time zones. I also agree with Ben. To get to that level, work must be your life.
Yes, they work hard. It's the mid level managers that reach their level of incompetence and then take it easy. Unfortunately, that's what most workers see and assume the bosses have it easy. There are a lot of goof offs at the worker level, especially the ones that have tenure or seniority. The scary thing is that many people are working hard at things that should not be done.
At least at startups that I have worked at, executives worked their tails off. There were days (and nights) that I was working and they weren't, but there were also nights that I went home, and they didn't.
We have a family friend who has been at the executive level in a few very large companies and from my understanding, he worked incredibly long hours and rarely had time for anything else. Sure, he might've been a member at the most prestigious country club, but the only time he got to golf there was every couple of months when he was working on a business deal. Even then, it wasn't like it was leisure time for him.