June 19, 2025
Microsoft research lays bare the rise of the ‘infinite workday’
Microsoft’s latest Work Trend Index Special Report, Breaking down the infinite workday, warns that the traditional boundaries of the working day have dissolved under a flood of emails, messages and meetings. Drawing on anonymised telemetry from Microsoft 365, the study argues that the contemporary knowledge worker now faces a “seemingly infinite workday” that begins before dawn and stretches deep into the evening. The day often starts before breakfast: 40 percent of users who are already online at 6 a.m. are triaging overflowing inboxes, and the average employee receives 117 emails a day—most scanned in under a minute. Mass emails sent to more than twenty recipients have risen by seven percent over the past year, while one-to-one threads are in decline. (more…)
May 9, 2025
Ping pong, perks, pizza and beanbags won’t get you a better workplace culture
by Daniel Snell • Comment, Flexible working, Wellbeing, Workplace, Workplace design