Workplace advice: If you work more than you want on the weekends, try these five strategies.
If you’ve lost your weekends to work projects begging to be finished and annoying pop-up employer emails, you’re not alone. According to
of 134,260 people working for 900 organizations, employees work an average of 6.6 hours, almost a full workday, each weekend. If this fits you, consider these questions:For many employees, weekends dwindled in exchange for a flexible work/life balance. You wanted to attend exercise classes at noon on Tuesdays and Thursdays? Go for it. You drop your kids off at 9 a.m. and pick them up at 3 p.m.? No problem -- use your weekend to check up on work you left undone during your shortened workdays.
You haven’t “lost” your weekends; they’ve become “found time” to finish work that spilled over from the week. You may have even learned to enjoy handling some handling some work over the weekend in exchange for less-hectic Monday mornings. For other employees, work has long invaded the weekend as job cuts heaped more work onto fewer employees and employers demanded more from those intent on holding onto their jobs in a shaky economy. Even before the pandemic,Another two-thirds of the employees surveyed reported their employers expected them to work an average of nine hours each weekend. Additionally, 74 percent of respondents between 25 and 44 noted they “couldn’t stop thinking about their work” on weekends.
Lynne Curry writes a weekly column on workplace issues. She is author of “Navigating Conflict,” “Managing for Accountability,” “Solutions” and “Beating the Workplace Bully,” and workplacecoachblog.com. Curry is president of Communication Works Inc. Send questions to her at workplacecoachblog.com/ask-a-coach or follow her on Twitter @lynnecurry10.
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