Coming soon to a lunchbreak near you! Friday 22nd February is Work Your Proper Hours Day. It’s a day to mark the amount of unpaid overtime done by UK employees, and prompt people to think a bit more about their work/life balance (or the lack of it).
Why the date? Well, if the nearly 5 million people in the UK who do unpaid overtime added it all up at the beginning of the year, it’d be until 22 Feb before they got paid for the work they’ve been doing.
Long hours aren’t good for anyone. Stress from workloads and the long hours culture makes people sick and wrecks relationships, and tired staff have lower productivity, so are bad for business.
Check out more about Work Your Proper Hours Day at the website: www.workyourproperhoursday.com
written on January 4, 2008
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