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 Office staff in London could be finding that they are putting in more hours of overtime, but recent official figures are "never as cut and dried as these things are presented", one expert has claimed.Earlier this month the TUC reported that there were two billion hours of unpaid overtime last year, which would be enough to create over one million full-time jobs. However, Phil Flaxton, chief executive of Work Wise UK, said this might not be as simple as it looks. He said that overtime largely depends on employers not abusing the "good nature and good will of their staff". "If you are someone who is quite happily prepared to be put upon or indeed you are someone who is in fear of your job, then that is where the bullying comes in," he remarked. "If somebody knows that they have got you over a barrel, then they know that you'll do it and you won't complain." The TUC found that individuals put in an average of 7.2 hours of unpaid overtime a week in 2011, worth about £5,300 a year. Speaking ahead of new employment statistics, Mr Flaxton suggested that this year will be tough. Indeed, figures from the Office for National Statistics show that unemployment has risen by 118,000 between September and November 2011. A threat of unemployment could lead many workers to feel indebted to work unpaid overtime, but the TUC noted that if workers put in all of their unpaid time at the start of the year they would not be paid until February 24th. Encouragingly, Kevin Green, chief executive of the Recruitment and Employment Confederation, said today (January 18th) that the UK jobs market will "bounce back" as the private sector continues to create new jobs. "We are continuing to see encouraging signs in terms of employers’ future hiring intentions and sectors such as IT, engineering and office professionals are already showing strong demand," he noted, stressing that opportunities "do exist". Posted by James Strang 
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