We often hear reports of the costs to British industry of employee sick days, the implication being that we’re a nation of skivers. A new survey looking at individual working hours gives us a clue as to why so many people need to take to their beds every few months.
Three quarters of UK business people now regularly work up to an extra three hours a day on top of their contracted hours, according to research carried out by Crowne Plaza Hotels & Resorts during May 2008. Rising pressure on workers and the impact of new technology means that many now make themselves available to the office 24/7, even during holidays.
So with the traditional nine-to-five becoming obsolete in the white-collar world, what effect is this having on employees and their personal lives? What of the much-hyped work-life balance? Most companies pay lip-service to it in employee handbooks but what is happening in reality?
It seems that personal workloads have increased significantly over the last ten years. The introduction of email, laptops and personal computers, mobile phones, BlackBerries and personal digital assistants (PDAs) means that an employee is always contactable.
Crowne Plaza’s survey of more than 1,500 business people in the UK showed that […]

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