According to a new study by The Australia Institute, Australians, particularly white collar professionals, are donating a hell of a lot of free time to their employers in the form of unpaid overtime.

Here’s what they say:

Each year, Australians work more than 2 billion hours of unpaid overtime.

Around half of all employees work more hours than they are paid for.

On average, a typical employee works 49 minutes of unpaid overtime per day.

For full-time workers, the average daily amount of unpaid work is 70 minutes, which equates to 33 eight-hour days per year, or six and a half standard working weeks.

Put another way, this is the equivalent of ‘donating’ more than your annual leave entitlement back to your employer.

Overwork can have negative consequences for your physical and mental health, your relationships with loved ones and your sense of what is important in life.

Yes indeed.

So the Australia Insitute has launched a Go Home On Time Day - next Wednesday the 25th of November.

Visit the website Go Home on Time Day and send yourself or a friends and family, a leave pass.

Then next Wednesday - Go home on time!

Question is, what are you going to do with yourself???

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