Managers 'work longer hours than employees'

MANAGERS are working longer hours than their employees, according to a new workplace lifestyle survey.

The average owner/manager of an Irish small and medium size company works more than 44 hours per week compared to the 37.2 hours worked by the rest of the population. Almost a quarter of owner/managers work 51 hours per week and a further 6% work more than 61 hours.

The survey, conducted by Millward Brown for mobile phone firm O2, found that a quarter of the 300 respondents do not take their full entitlement to annual leave, while just 51% say they always take their full holidays.