Most S'pore workers stay late and bring work home with them

By CARINE LEE


Half of Singapore workers spend well over eight hours a day at the office and 50 per cent regularly take work home to finish in the evening, showed a Regus survey released on Friday.

The survey found that Singapore workers worked longer hours than the global average, with 19 per cent regularly working more than 11 hours a day, whereas the global average is 10 per cent.

Fifty per cent of workers take tasks home to finish at the end of the day more than three times a week compared to the 43 per cent global average.

However, 31 per cent of workers in Singapore work between nine and 11 hours a day, compared to an average of 38 per cent elsewhere in the world.

More than 12,000 respondents from 85 countries participated in the survey.