Do you eat lunch at your desk or work into the night? The Telegraph reports that all those skipped lunch breaks and late evenings in the office accumulate over time – adding up to 39 days worth of unpaid work a year, on average. Britons clock up almost eight working weeks worth of overtime each year without being paid for this extra work, according to TotallyMoney.com.
The finance comparison site calculated that the average British employee works for free for 6.6 hours every week, rising to 7.4 hours in London, or 43 days of unpaid labour per year. The capital is surpassed only by East Anglia, home of Cambridge and Norwich, where residents clock up 8.2 hours of unpaid overtime per week, or 48 days per year.
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Meanwhile, George Osborne has warned that companies which cut staff perks to compensate for the higher cost of the new minimum wage should be mindful of the risk to their brand.
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