Name: What time do top execs stop working?
Uploaded: 2025-11-04
Duration: 1 min 38 s
Description: Top execs at the Fortune Global Forum shared what time they usually stop working.

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

What time do top execs stop working?

 Tony Douglas, Chief Executive Officer, Riyadh Air.

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If I'm home, I set a boundary where 6 p.m. I'm at dinner with my girls, and I promise them that every night. So from 6 to about 8 when they're going down, um, I'm really locked in there. Unfortunately, I don't really stop working. Afternoon. I'm always busy. I'm always picking things up. I'm always running, and then at night I might have an event or get invite over somewhere or I have to fly out. I'm not sure. One here could answer that question truthfully because you never really stopped completely. Most of the time 7 p.m. before dinner. You know, in the old days you'd go to work and you'd come home. Now it's more like a fabric that's intertwined, and I'd probably go to bed by 11. And so in that through the day, I'm kind of working and intertwining it with personal stuff just because when you're Global business, the clock never stopped. I stop when I am tired enough that I'm no longer productive. So my objective is to be asleep by 10. I have not yet hit that objective. My day ends normally after a work dinner, so I often have work dinners as well. So it's a long day. I stop working every day when it's evening for the stakeholders that I'm talking to around the world. It could be. Night because it's 12 noon in Asia or it could be 5 p.m. in the US, I try to stop kind of with dinners finishing at 8:30, 9 o'clock so that I get some sleep, and then in Europe I tend to work relatively late, so usually until 910 o'clock. It depends what you call work. So for me it's a joy being around people, and I seldomly stop doing all of that until it's time to sleep.