Rise of the «Infinite Workday» – 40% of Employees Check Email Before 6 a.m., Evening Meetings Up 16%
Microsoft news | 17/6/25Professionals, including Swiss workers, …
Why include them?
… are experiencing an «infinite workday» with 40% checking email before 6 a.m. and meetings after 8 p.m. increasing 16% year-over-year, according to a new Microsoft Work Trend Index Special Report released today. The global study, which analyzed trillions of Microsoft 365 productivity signals, including Switzerland …
in case you were wondering, “Is Switzerland included in those trillions of signals?”
… among the 31,000 knowledge workers across 31 markets surveyed, reveals how the traditional 9-to-5 workday has evolved into a continuous cycle of digital communication.
At IMAO we outsource communications to you, and pass the savings on to . . . um, interns!
The average employee …
Didn’t it deal with us exceptional ones?
… now receives 117 emails and 153 Teams messages daily, with Tuesday emerging as the week’s busiest day for meetings (23%). [Oppo’s Ed. Note: Dilbert had a funny cartoon where the boss was shocked to hear that 40% of sick days were taken on Mondays or Fridays.] The report identifies a «triple peak» workday pattern, with nearly a third (29%) of active workers returning to their inboxes by 10 p.m.
Returning? That’s when I first check my inbox.
How much time is lost converting quotation marks to weirdo Swiss “<<“s and “>>”s?
Weekend work is also on the rise, …
Like a bad moon. Don’t go ’round tonight!
… with 20% of employees actively working on weekends checking email before noon on Saturday and Sunday.
Suckers. Or, suck-ups.
The study reveals that employees are interrupted every two minutes –
As in this post?
— 275 times per day – by meetings, emails or chat notifications. Half of all meetings occur during peak productivity hours (9-11 a.m. and 1-3 p.m.), leaving little room for deep focus work. Additionally, 57% of meetings are ad hoc calls without calendar invites, and PowerPoint edits spike 122% in the final 10 minutes before meetings.
Ad hoc meeting, after you read this!
And studies show that these same workers think about eating cookies every 20 minutes and having sex every 10 minutes. Personally, at my age, I think that’s backwards.
mmmm . . . sex cookies . . .
Are they soft ‘n chewy? Or hard and crunchy? Creme-filled? Frosted? Multilayered? Vanilla wafers or ginger snaps?
Dammit. I’m going to the store.
“Right, right, right. Any jokes about “Nut ‘Er Butter” will go straight to moderation!”
They’re not even concerned about their huge carbon footprints and now Greta is on a flotilla storming toward them from Manilla. ⛵
Isn’t that in the Full-o-Pains?
Greta’s flotilla from Manilla?!
Lionfish, Tigersharks and She Bares, Oh My!
(It’s too hot out to work.)
Greta on a flotilla
Storming all the way from Manila
In search of a camera
Scolding Gamera
Breathing fire on global-warming Godzilla.
(“No Kings” Cong too.)
A defeated Douglas MacArthur, standing meekly in line with his 5-cent deposit bottle:
“I shall return.”
Ha! Work emails is all for you, you workers! I check my email once in the morning and one in the evening. And when I am on vacation I check it not at all.
“Ha! Workers unite! Let us rebel against our emails by cc’ing them all to FBI.gov. That will be fire!”
— Random Commenter.