An associate of mine mentioned that Ranhill WorleyParsons has implemented a 4 1/2 day work week. You work an hour more from Monday – Thursday, and skedaddle Friday afternoon.
IGL Perth did (does?) a similar thing. You work an extra hour for 7 days in a fortnight, and get the 8th day free.
The above are examples of companies putting that extra bit in to nab the scarce experienced engineering resources that are floating out there, and promoting intangible benefits to entice them.
But, give an engineer extra hours in the day, and she’ll try to work overtime. Intangible benefits only go so far, gas for the car isn’t sold for smiles and goodwill. Heck, I’ve seen an engineers’ timesheet where he worked 18 – 22 hours a day. And he was an expat. Please work for someone who will sign off a timesheet with those figures.
Wata - Malaysian Oil and Gas Engineer 
During Jabba’s time, the head of department was IB (B rhymes with penyapu). He approved an expat prodigee of his RMDV. RMDV could claim OT working up to 3am in the morning, and worst of all, he had all sort of idea investigating non bookable technical issues. RMDV with less than 10yrs experience could clock up so much OT, his pay could pay 6 local seniors.
How can expat go around that milking local engineers dry.