Employees 'burning the candle at both ends'

Many employees are burning the candle at both ends by working an excessive number of hours, according to a new report.

Research carried out by Reed shows that the typical "nine-to-five" job is being shunned by many employees, who are instead putting in ten-hour shifts and relying on an "email culture".

According to the report, almost half of workers say they cannot live without email, with the majority citing it as "the biggest transformation in the world of work during the last 50 years".

Tom Lovell, group managing director of Reed, said that a trend towards a more connected and diverse working environment has gradually developed.

"Advances in technology have led to significant changes in working life, enabling people to have more control over the shape of their careers and ending more traditional, restrictive approaches to working arrangements," he explained.

Recently, Tim Vye, divisional director at Reed Finance, said that the dynamics of the job market are starting to change and are slowly beginning to come back to the middle ground, giving people looking for sales jobs a better chance of securing a position.

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Posted by Nikki Barrister

Filed: 04-08-2010