If you struggle to find time from work to enjoy your personal life, it’s probably because you’ve turned into a workaholic.
A study of census data has revealed Australian workers are putting in an additional 52 days of overtime each year at work.
Australian Financial Review crunched the numbers from the 2011 census data and found we are now doing so much overtime that we are effectively working an extra 10 weeks a year.
And what’s worse - many workers are not even been compensated for the extra toil.
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Of the 6.3 million full-time workers in Australia, 1.7 million, about 26 per cent, said they worked 49 or more hours in the week prior to last year’s census.
The analysis also found that employees, rather than owners, were the most likely to put in extremely long hours.
So which profession works the longest hours?
Data reveals surgeons top the list with three-quarters of them saying they worked 49 or more hours a week.This was followed by about 70 per cent of legislators and around the same percentage of crop and livestock farmers, most of whom are self-employed.
Legal professions followed with nearly half of all barristers and lawyers working longer hours, according to the census data.
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Industry wise, farming and mining featured the longest hours. A quarter of those in dairy farming and cotton growing said they work 49 or more hours a week.
The census data may not take into account workers who fly into and out of mining sites and is based on the hours worked in the previous week.
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Expat living in Oz., and yes, its the most "laid back" (read: lazy) place I have ever seen. Common knowledge that if you need something done well, you need to hire non-Australian to do it.
ReplyHave a look at the photograph of that guy up top, he is obviously upset with his knowelege of computers or somnething, he has even spilt his coffee, he needs to calm down that guy. Looking at him, work, he wouldnt understand what work is !!!
ReplyI dont believe it, simple as that. Work and work, if you want to know how people work check out some Asian Countries , Australian is known as " Down under " sleepy , and it has`nt changed, I question all that investigation. There is a big difference between work , and work you know !!!!
ReplyMost comments about lazy buggers etc , are from people who havent traveled much .The rest of the western world dont put in the hours that we do .Its not healthy I should know i just moved to europe because i was working 60 to 80 hrs a week at home .The french take 2hrs for lunch and never work 6 days ,very unproductive , but very happy people .Same with italians and spaniards. Even in the gfc.And if your in the uk dole bludgers recieve great accomadation free health care and no end of benifits .life style and your health much more important.Work to live .
1 ReplyThis suggests that they work an extra day each a week. What a load of bollocks ! Maybe she is working the numbers on mining shift workers doing 84 hours on the weeks they work but not taking into consideration the week off. Most of the locals I know struggle to break forty hours let alone fifty.
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