Do you find yourself working back late? Never quite getting out the door on time? Well, Go Home On Time Day on November 30 is your chance to make up for it!  
     
We can all find it tricky to leave the office or finish work on time. That’s why this November 30 is national Go Home on Time Day. It’s your opportunity to postpone all those last-minute tasks, emails and late meetings, and leave work on time for a change. What you do next is up to you!  
     
Research from The Australia Institute finds that Australians work more than 2 billion hours of unpaid overtime every year! Around half of all employees work more hours than they are paid for. On average, a typical employee works 49 minutes of unpaid overtime per day. For full-time workers, the average daily amount of unpaid work takes more than one hour.  

Overwork can have negative consequences for your physical and mental health, your relationships with loved ones and your sense of what is important in life.

This year, our research will focus on 'time pollution''.
     
To show your support, get free updates and dowload a workplace poster, visit the Go Home on Time Day website www.gohomeontimeday.org.au
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Given its coming up to year end close - our principal manufacturing sites need to do an inventory count and major capital items count to assess that our carrying value on the balance sheet is in line with acceptable +/- margins.

We decided that the best way to do this was on a weekend before December.
Thus ensuring we dont interrupt people's holidays and we don't interrupt an everyday workday.

Japan counted within 1 day (despite having the 2nd highest level of inventory)
Puerto Rico did theirs on a friday night and worked through until saturday midday.
Germany did theirs through Sat, finished midday then came in sunday.

Australia has still not been counted and its Nov 29th.
The staff there don't want to come in on the weekend and if they do they want to be paid extra. Despite the fact they are per annum employees.

As my boss here said "What the bugger is wrong with those Aussies? Their work ethic down there is disgraceful."

How much of that unpaid time is banked as time in lieu?

Also, Im willing to bet a fair majority of it is done by people on well above award wages.  Its built into it.

I did roll my eyes at the average person doing an hour of unpaid overtime a day.

Come off it, thats so out there its laughable considering the number of employees who either get time in lieu or paid for each miniute of work.  

I dont see our union workforces and regulated environments letting it get that far out.

gizmo_2655 wrote on Nov 30^th, 2011 at 1:35pm:

15 to 20 minutes would be a lot more believable.

My boss would do the hour a day thing easy, but considering his rate of pay per week I wouldnt exactly call it "unpaid".