Posts Tagged ‘Work Your Proper Hours Day’

Work zen or work den?

Wednesday, February 20th, 2008

I found that I'm working in Office Zen at the Work Your Proper Hours Day website

Unfortunately I don’t have enough clear space on my messy desk for yoga, but otherwise happy to know that I work in a state of 80% Zen as regards my employer’s attitude to work / life balance (albeit with a 20% tendency to working 8 days a week).

You can find out your own workplace style at the Work Your Proper Hours Day site (and put yourself on a neat-o google map mashup for a prize). Yes - it’s that time of year again. If you add up all the unpaid overtime people do in the UK, the average long hours worker works for free until this Friday - 22nd February. (more…)

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…Clocking off

Friday, February 23rd, 2007

Okay. 5.48pm, so only a few minutes late, I can live with that in terms of working my proper hours.

If you’re still in the office, what are you up to, you fool? Knock it on the head now - Flee whilst you still can!

**With the important caveat that if you’re just reading blogs in the office, you’re hardly working**

Anyway, now it’s time for that pint…

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Now where did I put my desk?

Monday, February 19th, 2007

I found that I'm a chaos theorist at the Work Your Proper Hours Day website

I’m normally very good at minding my hours, so shall make a point of being down the pub on time this Friday for Work Your Proper Hours Day.

I tried this quiz for myself as I am now, and again as I was in my last job, where I did do some silly hours (and ended up giving myself RSI, which wasn’t very clever). I’m currently a “Chaos Theorist” (in other words, when I do unpaid overtime it’s often my own fault for being disorganised), but that’s a big improvement on my previous life as a wretched “Desk Junkie”.

Have a go, and see who you are and what problems you need to fix. It gives you some quite good advice on where you’re going wrong and what you need to tackle about it.

There are loads of different reasons for overworking, which combine to make a pretty whopping £23bn of free overtime done in the UK every year. Don’t make yourself one of the thousands who suffer every year from stress, broken relationships, work related illnesses, or even just a miserable social life. Even the best job in the world shouldn’t take up your life to the exclusion of everything else. See you in the pub 5:30 sharp on Friday!

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