The average hours worked on Saturday and Sunday last year increased 5% to 6.6, according to ActivTrak, which analysed almost 175 million hours of work across 134,260 anonymised users of its productivity-management software worldwide. — Unsplash
In the 1980s, everybody was working for the weekend, or so a hit song from the period proclaimed.
Now, working on the weekend is becoming more commonplace in some sectors as layoffs increase and workers seek time to focus, free from the deluge of meetings and other distractions.
