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This was in the InformationWeek daily:

** WORKPLACE: Surprising Findings In Overwork Study

Add overwork to death and taxes as life's only certainties, at least for IT 
workers. Whether staffing up in booms and cutting back in busts, IT workers 
are stretched thin. But a new study is helping to better define what 
constitutes overwork. The findings may surprise some.

The nonprofit Families and Work Institute has released a survey, "Feeling 
Overworked: When Work Becomes Too Much," that indicates it isn't necessarily 
the workload that leads to a feeling of overwork. More relevant is the 
"ownership" people feel they have for tasks. Employees are more likely to 
feel overworked because they're trying to meet superiors' expectations or 
because more time is needed to complete an assigned task.

They are less likely to report being overworked when the effort is internally 
driven: to advance in a career, or to make more money in order to buy a new 
house, for instance. In fact, Ellen Galinsky, principal author of the study, 
says that a group of IT workers told her recently that they consider 
themselves the overwork "poster children" for overwork. John Drake, founder 
of human-resources consulting firm Drake Beam Morin, says IT is probably the 
worst area for overwork. "IT is a key piece in most companies; long hours and 
dedication are expected--especially in small startups," he says.

The average U.S. employee works 42 hours a week, but would prefer to work 
just under 35. The InformationWeek 2001 Salary Survey finds that, on average, 
IT staff work 45 hours a week plus 24 hours on call. For managers, on-call 
time is roughly the same, but they're working 50 hours. On-call time is 
dramatically up from last year, from around 15 hours a week. - Diane Rezendes

For more information from our salary survey, visit 
http://update.informationweek.com/cgi-bin4/flo?y=eDkO0Bc5mz0V20N810AT Read 
more about IT workloads at

Backlash
http://update.informationweek.com/cgi-bin4/flo?y=eDkO0Bc5mz0V20N820AU

A summary of the Families and Work Institute study can be found at 
http://update.informationweek.com/cgi-bin4/flo?y=eDkO0Bc5mz0V20N830AV

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        Joanna

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Today's URL of interest:

http://www.familiesandwork.org/OverworkPressRelease.htm