The data showed no significant drop in the use of business virtual private networks (VPNs) at lunchtime, which the firm said could indicate people taking shorter lunch breaks while working remotely.
“However, employees in the UK and the Netherlands are working until 8pm, regularly logging off later than usual to wrap up an extended working day.” “Online working hours across some European countries have started to stabilise with employees having had the opportunity to return to the office in some capacity,” NordVPN Teams said. However, the number of hours worked by people in Denmark, Belgium and Spain have fallen back to pre-pandemic levels. Workers in Canada also increased the number of hours they were online from nine to 11 a day. NordVPN Teams’s figures, first published by Bloomberg, show that in January workers in the UK and US were typically logged on for 11 hours a day – up from nine hours in the UK and eight in the US before lockdowns began in March 2020.Īverage hours logged on by country – table When asked what their company could do better to address burnout or stress while working from home, 55% said it would help if their employer kept communication and work expectations within working hours.Ĭompany owners were also struggling, with nearly two in five saying they had suffered from depression, anxiety or exhaustion over the past year. The surveys also showed home workers taking shorter lunch breaks, working through sickness, and more workers being “always on” as the split between working and leisure time is blurred. Separate research shared with the Guardian by the remote team-building firm Wildgoose found 44% of UK employees reported being expected to do more work over the last year, with those at mid-sized firms most likely to report an increased workload. NordVPN Teams analysed data from its servers to see how private business networks were being used by employees working remotely. UK workers have increased their working week by almost 25% and, along with employees in the Netherlands, are logging off at 8pm, it said. The average length of time an employee working from home in the UK, Austria, Canada and the US is logged on at their computer has increased by more than two hours a day since the coronavirus crisis, according to data from the business support company NordVPN Teams. Employees who work from home are spending longer at their desks and facing a bigger workload than before the Covid pandemic hit, two sets of research have suggested.
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