Wednesday, November 14, 2007

UK Employees See Return On Long Working Hours

The UK workforce has hit the headlines a number of times in recent years for working behaviour - short lunches and regular overtime being two major issues - but it seems that the rewards for such behaviour is starting to trickle down to the UK employees from the employers.
Government statistics recently released (http://www.statistics.gov.uk/cci/nugget.asp?id=10 ) show that average earnings, excluding bonuses, have risen by 3.8 percent in the year to January 2006. Growth has been achieved for earnings including bonuses too, though at the slightly lower rate of 3.5 percent. Of particular interest is the fact that over the same perio View the rest of this article


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