Working over the BankHolidayWeekend? You might be one of the women experiencing a 'hidden overtime epidemic':
asked women how they’re being affected by the “hidden overtime epidemic” that’s been blurring the boundaries between work and home for the past 18 months. This is how they responded.
,” the report states. “This has created an epidemic of ‘hidden overtime’, where workers never quite ‘switch off’ and continue to do bits of work throughout the evening and weekend.
Slowly we’re getting back to a normal state and I’ve learnt that night-time working isn’t for me. A good thing to come out of the pandemic is I know how and how I shouldn’t work, and what I need to protect my mental health.”Burnout and workplace stress: “I didn’t realise I was suffering from burnout – until I was made redundant”“I decided quickly to take this lockdown time to keep myself and myvisible. I wanted to be strong and not bury my head in the sand.
Now it’s up to two or three sessions a day, with no real down time in between. Whereas I used to be able to catch-up with emails and admin during a commute or at a hotel. As a result of not having this time I now work most weekends catching-up and making sure clients receive everything they need. There is no space for breaks in the day, as it’s video session to video session. I feel super grateful, but have had to ensure myare at a set time to walk away from the desk.
I have terrible mum guilt, as they are constantly asking “what are we doing today” but there simply isn’t enough time orI’m exhausted and can’t wait for the summer holidays to be over to have some sort of normality again.”from working full time and trying to juggle childcare with running a home and all that those things entail. My husband works shifts as an emergency dispatcher so, out of necessity, the day-to-day routine generally fell to me to manage.
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