Britons did a whopping two billion hours of unpaid overtime last year – worth a record £29.2 billion to the UK economy. Or put another way, that’s roughly equivalent to a million extra full-time jobs.
This means that this year’s Work Your Proper Hours Day falls on Friday 24 February. If workers who regularly put in unpaid overtime worked all their hours from the start of the year, the 24th Feb is first day they would get paid. Read more…
posted 05/01/2012
Work more than 40 hours a week? You’re 6 times more likely to ‘burn out’ than those who work fewer than 35.
New research from the Aragon Institute of Health Sciences in Spain shows that long hours increases the risk of “burnout syndrome”: long-term exhaustion, a loss of interest in your work, and high levels of irritability. Read more…
posted 30/06/2011
Most of us will be getting an extra Bank Holiday this year, but double check your contract before booking a trip away. Read more…
posted 04/04/2011
A record 5.26 million people worked unpaid overtime last year – the highest since records began in 1992. Today, on Work Your Proper Hours Day (WYPHD), the TUC’s analysis of official figures shows that over one in five workers regularly worked unpaid overtime last year, the highest proportion since 1997.
WYPHD is marked this year on 25 February – it’s the day when the average person who does unpaid overtime would start to get paid if they did all the unpaid work at the start of the year. The nearly two months free work highlight just how much many workers are putting into their organisations and companies, often picking up the slack from redundancies and recruitment freezes.
Last year those 5.26 million people across the UK clocked up an average seven hours 12 minutes unpaid overtime a week, worth £5,485 per person and a record £28.9 billion to the economy. Read more…
posted 25/02/2011
…it really might be better to say nothing. If your boss likes to tick people off in public, he or she could be damaging more than morale. Research suggests that witnessing rudeness in the workplace could lead to mistakes and poor performance.
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posted 13/07/2010
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