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
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
Being regularly stuck at your desk long after normal working hours can be a drag, no matter how much you love your job, and certainly doesn’t do much for your social or family life. But a new study shows that workers putting in too many extra hours in the office may be more likely to develop heart problems.
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posted 14/05/2010
Over five million workers across the UK gave away £27.4 billion in unpaid overtime in 2009, according to a TUC study of official statistics. This means that if everyone who worked unpaid overtime did it from the start of the year, they would start getting paid on Friday 26 February. We’ve declared this day Work Your Proper Hours Day 2010, and will be calling on bosses to thank staff for the extra work they are putting in to help businesses through the recession. Read more…
posted 02/02/2010
Work Your Proper Hours Day is next week (Friday 27 Feb), and to help us mark the event, work life balance expert Professor Cary Cooper of Lancaster University has helped us make a special interactive long hours clinic tool. Tell us a bit about your working situation, and we can match your profile with Professor Cooper’s tips to get a better balance.
You can also read more about the event (with other tools and games to fiddle with during your precious break times) at www.workyourproperhoursday.com
Try the Long Hours Clinic tool now
posted 19/02/2009
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