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THE TYPICAL IRISH working day now begins around 8am and ends at 8pm, according to a survey of working patterns.
The survey shows the rise of remote access and networking technology means employees increasingly feel expected to log in outside traditional working hours.
The average employee puts in more than 40 minutes work before arriving at the office.
And Irish people work later than their counterparts in Germany, France, Britain or the US – checking their work emails for the last time at 8.02pm on average.
Bosses in Ireland said they would feel comfortable calling an employee about a work issue as late as 7.30pm – the latest of the five countries surveyed.
However, the poll carried out by cloud computing firm Mozy found that we also start work later, with Irish people arriving at the office at 8.39am on average. The average for all five countries was 8.18am.
Overall, men tend to clock on earlier than women. Forty per cent of men surveyed said they checked their emails before 7.30am, compared to 25 per cent of women.
The survey covered 1000 managers and employees in Ireland, Germany, France, the UK and the US.
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Men clock in earlier as women have to do their makeup.
Not in the public sector it’s not. My wife works low-30′s hours per week. We benefit, but it’s a crazy set up. Croke Park Agreement is a smoke screen for inaction. nnI work 930 to 6. Private sector. Working from home. No traffic.
While that may be the case in many offices, my wife works up to 55-60 hours in the office every week in the public sector. nI am not defending the CP agreement, but not all jobs are the same. nThere are some that drag down the rest.
Worked in the public sector as a doctor for a long time. Junior docs are still working 60-80 hrs a week, mainly unpaid overtime these days!
Of course, I should have stated that. Not every job is the same. Doctors, nurses, office workers across the board can work crazy hours. In my particular experience, a huge amount of office staff work very short hours, with hours getting shorter as you go up the pay scale. Some individuals work hard which is commendable, but they are fighting a work culture of mediocrity on a daily basis.
30 people out of 30,000 didn’t get their pay rises? I know it’s off topic, but wow.
Is this a joke? As soon as i finish work, I’m finished.
I’m not doing anything until I’m in the next day, unless they want to give me OT
For a lot of people it’s trying to be seen as the person in the office you can least afford to let go…
No it’s not. You can be in the doing SFA, so being there is not the point
We don’t all work in offices some people have real jobs.
Well McDonalds is 24 hours….
Longer hours != More productivity.
The country is in need of someone like Martine Aubry
@ Kilkenny Cat. Most women are probably doing the school/creche run. Hopefully they’re not putting on their makeup at the same time!
Not mine! I have the no more than 5 min commute rule.
What’s the rule?
I wonder how much of this “typical” 12-hour working day is spent online on sites such as this one.
Hardly surprising, since we are among the most neo-liberal toadies on the planet.
Read how labour ‘reforms’ — flexibility and all that guff you hear from RTE/IBEC — are bringing about inequality http://t.co/naML6W5F
I wouldn’t put too much stock in polls conducted on a nation which has been shown to be complete and utter liars on the most important of polls – the national census – to be honest.
How so?
12 hours a day, for 50 years and then you die. What is the point of life if one can’t enjoy it.
Important to get the balance, it has been statistically proven that at least three mails have to be sent the following day to rectify those sent late at night when people are tired or shooting from the hip. I work less regular hours now and feel I am a lot more effective, I put the work in when it is required but do not hang around unnecessicarily. Portfolio working is healthy and keeps ones skills sharp and diverse which is what we all need to compete in a little economy that is luckily starting to embrace entrepreural skills even if it is not directly in ones own business. An employer who seeks ideas, harnesses talent and rewards and incentivises is the employer that will always weather the storm.
modern day slavery…bosses know they have employees by the cojones…( small male groin attachments )…..and can get away with lots in the current economic climate….an unholy trinity of business interests….the EUssr and the criminals known as the world bank/imf all conspiring to make sure that the wealthy get richer and the masses stay controlled
Neo-liberal debt-enslaving overlords 1, decent human beings 0
90% of the time, I start at 0800, finish at 1630 and the blackberry is switched off gathering dust when i’m not travelling. the other 10% outside this are for escalations that may crop up during the normal day. If you typically find yourself working late into the evening to clear something off your desk, what will you pick up the next morning?
a poll by cloud computing company?? is this a joke?
8 hours for the bankers and the rest for you.
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