Working hours get longer in upturn

The trend for working longer hours is returning to British workplaces now the economy is entering an upturn, the CIPD’s latest work audit has found.

The loss of nearly one million full-time jobs and a shift to part-time working since the start of the recession resulted in a 10 per cent drop in the number of men working more than 45 hours per week, according to the Working Hours in the Recession report.