But occasionally, when work calls for staying late, the return home can be a concern.
In other words, if you establish a pattern of staying late, your extended hours become the new normal.
The Plumtree roommates have made staying late something of a competition, in which they all try to outlast one another.
It was a Friday afternoon and besides the janitors and the teachers staying late to avoid their spouses, I was the last person at school.
The municipal offices closed early on Fridays, but Benny Avni made a point of staying late at the end of the week, personally responding to every letter.
They like to see employees arriving early and staying late, not taking their holidays or if they do, contacting the office or doing their e-mails while on holiday.
More than a hundred museums and institutes across the EU will be throwing open their doors to mark the event tonight, with some 300 researchers at the NHM staying late to discuss their work, answer questions, and give people a tour around the warren of backroom stores and laboratories.
Staying up late the night before an exam is generally a bad idea, the guide suggests.
Conversely, by age 60 most people have lost their affinity for staying up late.
Lewis agreed with the doctor that staying up late and "carrying on" can make a day of hunting more difficult.
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This may mean adjusting work hours in order to make everything happen, or staying up late after kids are in bed, to finish work.
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October in New York means long walks in Central Park, new plays on Broadway and staying up late to watch the Yankees in the playoffs.
"I like staying up late and I like being with my mommy and daddy, and I think it's fun to play the drums, " Rachel says.
Scott describes her as untiring, walking through heat and rain without complaint, staying up late after a field trip to transcribe notes and meeting her deadlines.
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Commerce Bank, which is now owned by Canada's TD Financial, shook up the market with innovations such as staying open late so customers could come in after work.
It comes from staying up late reading Tax Court decisions.
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Instead of making a special trip to the store (possibly requiring childcare) and staying up late baking, she uses an app to keep a long day from being even longer.
Panic tends to set in the day before the exam, with 61% staying up late, 40% up all night, and the average bedtime pre-exam being 2.19 am, according to the survey.
Vice President Joe Biden and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell appear to have agreed on the basic outline of a deal after staying up late on Sunday, locked in negotiation, but uncertainty remains.
Little by little, StarCraft transitioned from being a hobby to being a lifestyle choice: we started traveling to tournaments, staying up late to watch Korean pro matches, and practicing as much as possible.
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So Tanya, congratulations, and thanks for staying up so late to talk to us.
When we had calls to make, teachers and nurses showed up after work, already bone-tired, but staying anyway, late into the night.
Heard you on staying up too late!
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When I mention that the rule forbidding late-staying guests will now oblige me to leave, they burst out laughing.
Harmison was a late arrival in New Zealand after staying behind to see the birth of his fourth child, but he has no regrets about the decision.
Dumont's stepsons was invited for a sleepover in the late 1970s and ended up staying two years.
She said her son called late Saturday night and said he was staying at the home of his best friend Ramone White.
At one of the many boutique hotels that have popped up in Barcelona of late--one this writer tried after staying at the Grand Marina--the walls were so thin that every sound from a next-door neighbor could be heard.
We put 6, 000 papers on the street each week, and after staying up most of the night Wednesday, I would come in late Thursday and bask in the glow: townspeople stopped by to chat, bring announcements, and drop an occasional compliment on the editorial.
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