Jane Brown is used to staying at work beyond her contractual hours.
These time pressures are big stress triggers, with staff working in excess of their contractual hours.
He reiterates the point that contractual hours may not reflect the real amount of time a person worked.
This means that they receive no enhanced rates for overtime beyond their normal contractual hours and often encounter problems over bank holiday pay.
Last year Next raised wages for its lowest paid staff by 6% and increased the average number of contractual hours per worker so that on average staff earned 33% more.
What would a donor think if told that even the highly paid CEO or Fundraising director of a charity wasn't prepared to work more than the contractual hours?
All that can add up to a toxic work culture where people feel they have to come in before the boss and stay until the boss has left, otherwise they feel they are not showing commitment and therefore won't be promoted". Research last August by Investors in People found over a third of British workers believed colleagues who stuck to their contractual hours were not pulling their weight.
This work environment was my definition of the seventh circle of hell, so I decided very early on that I would choose life over work and do my contractual hours unless there was a deadline or I was really keen for results.
The recession has stolen our contractual hour-long lunch breaks, Facebook photos and drunk tweets have exposed our "emergency dentist's visits" as the hangovers they really are and smartphones have turned every holiday into a working one.
Weekly hours were derived from the contractual weekly hours for employees with agreed working hours in their employment contract and from the usual weekly working hours for all other categories.
Next to socio-demographic characteristics (i.e., age, gender, marital status, number of children living at home, education, job position, type of work shifts, contractual working hours, actual working hours), several personal characteristic measures (i.e., overcommitment, general self-efficacy, self-oriented perfectionism) will be included to control for individual differences.
