Staff ‘working longer for no extra pay’

Up to 40% of professionals are working longer hours than they are contracted to with no extra pay — resulting in nearly €93m in lost wages.

A stark work-life study of Irish employees, undertaken by IT firm Citrix, shows they are on average working six hours longer a week than contracted.

Ireland’s entire workforce spends around 4.2m hours working for free, the equivalent of over €92.7m in lost salary.