Daily commutes have been replaced by endless emails and video-meetings. A new report finds that people around the world are working for longer, on average, than they did before the pandemic. In Britain 47% of workers clocked in remotely in April, compared with an average of around 14% in 2019, according to the Office for National Statistics. By October, four months after the first lockdown had eased, the figure was still 27%. Researchers at Atlassian, a developer of workplace software, looked at the behaviour of users in 65 countries. They recorded the first and last times people interacted with the software on a weekday, and took this as a measure of their working day. They found that working hours started to lengthen in March, when most Western countries introduced lockdown measures. In April and May the average working day was 30 minutes longer than it had been in January and February Summarised from: Economist.com https://econ.st/39gx8yS
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