Overworking so much that you only pause to sleep? Welcome to the infinite workday

You work all night, you work all day, to pay the bills you need to pay? (There is really one Mum Mia Cite for everything.) But seriously – we are all on work, right? For example, we work all day and then, in a way, well in the evening too? Maybe when you open your eyes, you instinctively reach your phone to check your work emails. And perhaps, on your “lunch break”, you quickly find yourself finishing last minute tasks. And perhaps, on your journey, you use the “free time” as a chance to get ahead for the next day. You could even find your laptop that calls you after dinner.

If all of this seems familiar, you may have found yourself falling into the trap of the “infinite working day” – what it looks like. A working day that feels like it never ends, that you come home for the evening or even going on vacation.

And Microsoft working trend index found evidence to save him. Meetings outside the traditional 9 to 5 increased by 153%, with meetings after 18 hours increasing by 46%. In addition, the average employee sends or receives more than 50 messages outside the main hours of work. They even found a new “third peak” of work, which occurs at 10 pm.

He is “characterized by a frantic rhythm and an endless traction to work,” explains Bree Groff, author of Today was fun: a book on work (seriously). It tends to follow a similar model. “The classic infinite working day begins at 6 am, an employee returning to check his emails a few seconds after opening his eyes and before looking at a partner lying next to them,” she says.

Throughout this endless working day, things probably seem to be hectic. You might feel attracted to several directions or find yourself multiplying to the point of confusion. “The working day itself is characterized by an interruption dam with little or no concentration time,” explains Groff. And this style of work becomes more and more common – Microsoft cites that workers are interrupted on average every 2 minutes by a meeting, an email or a message. “And the work continues only in the evening with evening emails,” she says. 29% of active employees claim that they returned to their reception boxes at 10 p.m. “Then, of course, there is also work on weekends, without the day spared the version.”

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