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National Work Your Proper Hours Day is coming soon to your workplace.
If you do regular unpaid overtime, then exercise your right to work only
your contractual hours, and remind your boss just how much modern
workplaces depend on unpaid overtime.
Take a proper lunchbreak, not just a sandwich at your desk, and leave on
time, to enjoy your own time on Friday evening. Why not get together with
friends working nearby, and go for a coffee, a pint, or take in a show? You
deserve it! This is one day in the year for your boss to appreciate your
efforts, and for you to appreciate yourself.
When do you get paid?
27th February is the day when the average UK worker who does unpaid
overtime finishes the 40 unpaid days they do every year, and starts
earning for themselves. Your own pay day may come earlier or later,
depending on the hours you work above your contracted hours. Use our new unpaid overtime calculator to find out when you can celebrate
paying off your long hours debt.
Send a free eCard
Let your friends and colleagues know about Work
Your Proper Hours Day. Is someone staying too long
in the office? Maybe you'd like to invite people to get together for lunch or to meet up after work. Our new eCards are perfect for this, just choose a
picture, enter their details, and we'll do the rest.
Spread the word
Want to let your workmates know about the 27th? We've
got an A4 poster which you can download here to print off.
It's in Adobe pdf format. Download it in colour or black & white.
Sign of the time
Want to let your colleagues know where you've gone after hours on Friday
27th? Download and print our "I've already left" desk sign in Adobe pdf
format. Two quick folds and it'll let any overtime junkies still at work know
where you are, and leave you a message for Monday.
Whistle while you work
What are the top long-hours tunes this year? Check out our chart, and
let us know your suggestions
It's about time
Long hours are not good for us; they cause stress; they're bad for our
health; they wreck relationships; they make caring for children or
dependents more difficult; and tired, burnt-out staff are bad for business. Find out more about the UK's long hours culture