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01 Jul 2013
by Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development

Trends update: Megatrends: Are we working harder than ever?

This fourth publication in the CIPD’s Megatrends series looks at whether are working harder than ever.

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In the Megatrends publication, CIPD set out some of the big economic and social trends that have helped to shape work and working life in recent decades, such as de-industrialisation and demographic change.

This paper asks whether we are working harder than ever. It suggests employees seem to think they are. This is not because they are working longer hours. Rather it seems to be a sense of work becoming a more intense experience with greater workloads and pressures to meet deadlines, customer demands and performance targets.

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