Addressing overtime 'could improve business productivity'

Addressing the amount of overtime UK staff are doing and the work they actually do during this time can help to boost business productivity, one sector body has claimed.

That is the opinion of Rob Holdsworth, senior campaigns officer at the TUC (Trades Union Congress), who said a lot of the overtime workers are doing is not actually benefiting the employer.

Many hours comprise people sitting at their desk nervous without really doing anything, and this needs to be addressed if employee satisfaction and business productivity is to increase, he noted.

"Addressing that, focusing around the work they do, rather than the time sat at their desks, would be beneficial. It would benefit employees, because they would have a better work/life balance, but it wouldn't cause any harm to the employer," Mr Holdsworth noted.

If managers have a better work/life balance with their staff, they will be more motivated, with many of these changes to work culture not actually costing anything to implement.

His comments came ahead of Work Your Proper Hours Day, which takes place this Friday (February 24th) and encourages every UK employee to work their exact hours and take a full lunch break.

This is because February 24th is calculated as the day when the average UK employee who does unpaid overtime stops working the equivalent unpaid days they do every year and starts earning for themselves.

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Posted by John Oak

Filed: 20-02-2012