British Employees - Working Hours

A recent MORI poll shows that just over half the British workforce say they would be happier (53%) and perform better work (48%), if they had more say in how their working hours were organised.

If workers were able to choose how to organise their hours, 43% said that they would like to do flexitime, with 15% saying that they would like to work from home occasionally.

A quarter of workers said that they often work in the evening, at night or at weekends and 38% said that they had to work anti-social hours in their current place of work. Just under a third (30%) said that they to do shift work. Thirty-seven per cent of British workers complain of excess working hours.

Fifty six per cent said that Trade Unions need to campaign for employees to have more say in how their working hours are organised.

Technical details: MORI interviewed a representative sample of 828 employees aged 18+ working full-time or part-time across 164 sampling points across Great Britain. Fieldwork conducted face-to-face, in-home between 6-9 February 1998. Data weighted to known population profile.