January 24, 201016 yr Workaholic Britons put in 900 million hours for free By Mail On Sunday Reporter Last updated at 12:39 AM on 24th January 2010 Comments (0) Add to My Stories Many Britons are working unpaid hours Britons spend more than 900million hours every year doing unpaid work, according to a new survey. A poll of 3,000 people found 12 per cent said they worked a minimum of five hours unpaid per week. Almost half (45 per cent) said they took work from the office home at weekends. The OnePoll survey, carried out on behalf of furniture specialist Sharps, also found that 58 per cent of people worked through their lunch break at least once a week and the same percentage said they regularly worked overtime without additional pay. More than a third said they felt their boss did not notice the extra time they put in and one in three found it hard to switch off outside work and to resist checking emails and taking phone calls. Just over half of the men polled said they took work home at weekends, compared with 42 per cent of women. Men are also 10 per cent more likely to check emails and take phone calls even when they are on holiday, averaging six hours of work while they are away, the survey found. Almost a third (28 per cent) of those polled also said they had taken on additional home-based jobs to earn more money during the recession. Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1245631/Workaholic-Britons-900-million-hours-free.html#ixzz0dWn7tX2I
January 24, 201016 yr At least some of us are making up for the £12billion a year its costing Britain in sickness absence!
January 24, 201016 yr Author At least some of us are making up for the £12billion a year its costing Britain in sickness absence! It's no wonder everyone's "sick" given all the workaholism about!:dozey:
January 24, 201016 yr I don't mind staying a few minutes longer if I'm needed. I've however, worked in place before where I had to do unpaid hours which is just wrong. We only got a 30 minutes lunch break on a 8 hour shift and we got paid for 7 hours work.
January 25, 201016 yr Author I don't mind staying a few minutes longer if I'm needed. I've however, worked in place before where I had to do unpaid hours which is just wrong. We only got a 30 minutes lunch break on a 8 hour shift and we got paid for 7 hours work. Was that the job with the "sadistic" boss?:confused:
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