While quality of engineers definitely is a cause for worry as well as soft skills, the practise of making people work more than 8 hrs a day (unless necessary) needs to stop. We need to learn to work smarter rather than slog harder for poorer results. Lot of the effort beyond 8hrs is due to poor planning, unnecessary work or poor execution. If things are set right, we should be more productive working normal hours that rest of the world do. It is imperative for everyone to realize that destroying family life and forcing people to live in offices cannot sustain efficiency, quality or productivity.
