From our Swindon Correspondent:
From the BBC
“We have some evidence that shows that when countries go into national lockdown, the number of hours worked increase by about 10%,” WHO technical officer Frank Pega said.
The report said working long hours was estimated to be responsible for about a third of all work-related disease, making it the largest occupational disease burden.
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I've worked full time at home since 12 March 2020 and saved myself at minimum of three hours a day of commuting time into London. So that's over 33 days of sitting in traffic, on a train, the tube and walking to work - plus the saving of the transport costs.
Even with the lifting of restrictions, it's not looking like my company is going to be operating on the old basis.
All the awkward social elements of office-work have gone for a year, and few people have missed them. I particularly liked Mencius Moldbug's characterisation:
Full thread: https://twitter.com/moldbugman/status/1194185331555233792
So the World Health Org. (the World not being an organism and not having a Health) views work-at-home as a health risk, associated with higher productivity (implied by more hours). If this owes to stress, what about the stresses of lower productivity and pay? And shouldn't the key be the non-medical question, "Is it worth it?"
Yet we're still spending £100++ billion on a new line to relieve 'congestion' (which was a dubious claim, even pre-Covid). Hard to explain, unless you follow the money.