Being clear about the hours

Most businesses have a culture of working late to help them manage workloads, but this expectancy on staff to stay late can quickly develop into a more serious issue when the line between flexibility and unhealthy overtime becomes blurred.

For the most part, this culture is embraced by workers who do not mind staying late occasionally if there is an outstanding piece of deadline-dependent work that needs to be completed.

However, when unpaid overtime becomes a regular occurrence and is pushed to unreasonable lengths it can negatively impact personal time and sociable hours, disrupting employees’ work-life balance and creating problems later down the line.