Employees working less than the previous generation

2nd February, 2012 - Posted by admin - No Comments

While the office is full of people complaining that they are working longer hours than ever, a new report has revealed that staff worked harder 60 years ago.

Despite the growth of new technology allowing staff to stay in touch with the office outside of working hours and a greater blurring of boundaries between work and non-work time, most employees are working less.

According to the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD) report, employees in 1952 spent an average of 48-hours a week at work, while today’s typical worker with a full-time job does only 37 hours.

Dr John Philpott, the report’s author and chief economic adviser to the institute, said many workers in today’s more modern world “do not seem much happier about their working lives” and exhibited “the symptoms of work-related stress”.

Meanwhile, the increase in the number of people claiming unemployment benefits was also highlighted as it has increased dramatically from around 350,000 to nearly 1.6 million today.

Moreover, young people today are far less likely to have a job as those under the age of 25 made up one in three of the workforce in 1952, compared to one in seven today.

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