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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. Seventy-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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