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| Are UK workers putting in fewer hours than 20 years ago? |
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 People in finance jobs and other roles are thought to be working fewer hours each week than they were 20 years ago. This is according to the latest figures from the Office for National Statistics (ONS), which found in its Labour Force Survey that between April and June this year, the average working time for all employees was 36.3 hours a week. Back in 1992, when experienced finance professionals were first starting out in their career, the average working time was 38.1 hours a week. The ONS put the 4.7 per cent fall down to changes in the structure of the economy. It suggested that more people are employed in jobs where hours are the shortest. It also stated, however, that managers and people in senior roles are more likely to work unpaid overtime, which is not reflected in these figures. Indeed, it found that these groups of professionals actually work 46.2 hours a week on average, meaning that they work for almost a day unpaid. Meanwhile, Dr Clare Kelliher, a senior lecturer in strategic human resource management at the Cranfield School of Management, suggested that people are now working harder in these hours, compressing their job into shorter amounts of time. "There is in some sense a difficulty associated with measuring hours, particularly when you talk about managerial and professional workers," she added. "With various communication technologies, work doesn't tend to start at the workplace and finish when they leave. With iPhones, BlackBerries et cetera, people are often working outside of regular working hours." Dr Kelliher explained that when staff answer emails over the weekend it is not always recorded in working hours statistics. She also noted that in recent years, professional workers and managers are working in different ways, making the boundaries between work and non-work life "blurred". The figures are published after a survey by Securenvoy, seen by the BBC, revealed that workers in their over 50s are less likely to check their work emails over the Christmas holidays. Posted by Mary King 
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