Study Finds Two-Way Shift in Traditional
Workday Boundaries
Seventy-five Percent of Workers Catch Up by
Attending to Personal Tasks While on the Job Forty Percent Bring
Work Home At Night
Leaving work at the office is no longer
possible for many American workers, according to the November
2000 Xylo Report: Shifts in Work and Home Life Boundaries.
Forty percent of employees put in overtime or take work home with them at least
once a week. But apparently, it's even harder for many workers to take care of
all personal business during non-working hours. Sevent-five percent of employees
take care of personal responsibilities while they are on the job, according to
the report. The Xylo Report is a national survey on work/life issues conducted
monthly by Wirthlin Worldwide for Xylo, Inc.
The Traditional Workday Has Expanded The report found that people with incomes between $30,000 - 60,000
dollars per year are over three times as likely to work extra hours on a daily
basis than people making less than $30,000. Of those who take work home
17 percent put in overtime or take work home
with them every day
15 percent put in overtime or take work home
with them two to three times per week
8 percent work beyond their scheduled hours
once each week
Home Responsibilities Are Getting Done At
Work Seventy-five percent of employees who work outside the home take care
of personal responsibilities while they are on the job at least once a month,
the report found. Just over one-third of employees, 36 percent, take care of
personal responsibilities on a daily basis at work, spending an average of 1.35
hours per day on those personal tasks. Another eighteen percent attend to
personal matters two to three times each week. This group spends an average of
2.3 hours per week on personal tasks.The
remaining 11 percent attend to personal matters only one or two times a month.
According to the report, the personal
responsibilities most frequently performed at work are:
Banking/bill paying (34 percent)
Phone calls (6 percent)
Childcare (16 percent)
Gift buying (5 percent)
Grocery shopping (12 percent)
Personal travel planning (3 percent)
Medical research (12 percent)
Personal entertainment planning (3 percent)
Making appointments (7 percent)
Eldercare (1 percent)
Personal shopping (7 percent)
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