Overtime Archives

Working overtime linked to lower KPIs, finds new report

Nov 1, 2024 | 0

Overtime work does not lead to an improvement of key performance indicators (KPIs) – and is actually linked to worse outcomes.

51% work beyond their contracted hours every day

Oct 3, 2024 | 0

New research reveals alarming statistics about the working habits of UK employees, with more than half regularly exceeding their contracted hours.

UK workers do 19m hours free overtime each month

May 28, 2024 | 0

An embedded culture of overwork and unpaid overtime is severely impacting businesses and workers across the UK.

Employee overtime saving employers billions in free labour

Mar 13, 2024 | 0

What are the consequences of your employees working overtime?

43% of UK employees regularly work overtime

May 2, 2022 | 0

With such a high percentage of UK employees reporting to work overtime, what can employers do to ensure better employee wellbeing?

Over a fifth of UK staff work three to five hours of unpaid overtime daily

Aug 26, 2021 | 0

Staff at 53 percent of UK organisations work unpaid overtime daily.

Hidden overtime leads to further calls for a Right to Disconnect law

Aug 17, 2021 | 0

How could this law work for companies with irregular working hours?

UK staff working £4.2 billion worth of unpaid overtime weekly

Jun 25, 2021 | 0

Over a quarter of UK workers reported working over 10 hours of unpaid overtime each week.

Homeworking staff did six hours of unpaid overtime weekly in 2020

Apr 20, 2021 | 0

What previous trends, linked to working from home, completely changed after the onset of the pandemic?

Over half of parents feel more stretched at work due to lockdown

Jan 20, 2021 | 0

How can HR teams help to alleviate the problems that working parents may be facing?

Employees now working nine hours of overtime each week, study warns

Jan 12, 2021 | 0

This has led to serious concerns surrounding employee wellbeing and workers’ mental health.

Joanne Skilton: How a digital workplace can stop us working late

Apr 2, 2019 | 0

There is growing evidence that having to work unacceptably long hours is becoming the norm. Joanne Skilton shares her thought on how a digital workplace can redress this.

Study finds that 40 per cent of young people are addicted to work

Mar 29, 2019 | 0

We explore why the UK is addicted to work, and what simple and effective measures employers can take to help redress this.

Part-time working mothers do more work without pay

Jan 16, 2019 | 0

Working mothers feel stigma which manifests in a shocking way.

Majority of UK workers do not get paid overtime

Jan 9, 2019 | 1

80 per cent of the UK workers that do not get paid overtime admitted “it is just part of my job”,

Woman in Japan dies from working ‘159 hours overtime’

Oct 5, 2017 | 0

Japan has been forced to confront its work culture after it was ruled that the death of a 31-year-old employee had been caused by overwork.

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