Subscribe in a reader | Subscribe by Email So, we work about longer, and also nearly half of us bring back work home often. Working longer doesn’t necessarily relate to better pay or productivity, but it can be one of the indicator for wages. Not sure what kind professions the survey covered though. If talk to security guards, workers at shopping complexes, factory operators etc., 8 t0 12 hours shift is normal.
I guess the economic conditions may force some (or many) to work longer or work few jobs.
Are you one of those who work long hours, more than 40 hours a week?
As for bringing work home, its partly due to the availability of ICT tools and infrastructure. We can work from anywhere nowadays. Also, some “bring back work” is for reading or sorting out stuff.
My policy – work stays at office. Leaving office at 5 or 6 or 7pm means leaving work behind.
Anyway, this would be good news for employers to push more employees to work longer.
Malaysians are clocking in more hours at work and bringing their office load back home, too.
“Some 47% of workers in Malaysia take tasks home to finish at the end of the day for more than three times a week, compared to 43% globally,” statistics in a global survey by workplace provider Regus showed.
Another 15% of Malaysian employees regularly work for more than 11 hours a day, compared to 10% globally.
The survey also showed 32% of Malaysian workers usually worked between nine and 11 hours every day.
Some 12,000 business people in 85 countries participated in the survey.
William Willems, regional vice-president for Regus Australia, New Zealand and South-East Asia said the study found “a clear blurring” of the line separating work and home.
“The long-term effects of such over-work could be damaging to both workers’ health and overall productivity.
“This is because workers may drive themselves too hard and become disaffected, depressed and even physically ill,” he said.
Willems said businesses that enabled employees to work from locations closer to home and manage their time more independently could offset the stress of a poor work-life balance.
On a global scale, the survey revealed that women were less likely to take work home compared to men, with 32% of women bringing tasks to finish at home more than three times a week compared to 48% of men.
“Workers in smaller companies globally were more likely to take work home than those working in large firms,” the study said.
source: http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2011/11/9/nation/9866319&sec=nation
