EMPLOYEES in York are working some of the longest hours in the UK.
That is the finding of a new analysis of phone call patterns conducted by BT, which monitors a sharp increase in evening and weekend working in the city, with a total of 23 per cent of calls being made out of hours.
Of 12 cities surveyed across Britain, York is equal fifth with Milton Keynes and Cambridge. The analysis shows that in York 13 per cent of business calls are made between 6pm and 8am and ten per cent made at weekends.
The most workaholic place is Ipswich, where 36 per cent of all its business calls are out of hours. It's relatively an easy life in Edinburgh, where only 21 per cent of calls are beyond 6pm and at weekends.
The study is being used to urge business people to switch to BT's Business Plan.
Craig Rowland, managing director of BT Business, said: "Although unusual shift patterns might partly explain the increase in business calls at evenings and weekends, firms are clearly working as hard as ever, with many employees working outside normal office hours.
Updated: 12:15 Wednesday, December 03, 2003
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