Killer Stats

Working

• Australians have the second longest working day in the industrialised world. (Source: ACTU)
  
  
• Only 36% of Australians worked a standard 38 hour week and more than 20 % worked unpaid overtime. (Adelaide University's Centre of Labour Research)
  
  
• 64% of full time workers in Australia are working more than the standard 38 hour week. (Source: ACTU study)
  
  
• Compared to the European Union's work limit of 48 hours per week, 25% of Australians working hours would be illegal in Europe.
  
  
• The number one reason why are we dissatisfied with our balance between work and family is because we are working longer hours. (Source: Newspoll survey: Work & Family)
  
  
• 10% of men across OECD countries would prefer to be totally family orientated, 30% say combining paid work and family is their ideal option, while 60% said that work-centred living was their preference. 20% of women would prefer to be with family, 60% want to combine both and 20% want to focus on career. (Source: The Australian)
  
  
• 50% of fathers said that long working hours and job flexibility were stopping them from being the kind of parent they would like to be.
  
  
• 75% of men are working 5 to 10 hours more each week than they did in the late 1990's. (Source: Morgan & Banks)
  
  
• Some research suggests that male worker productivity rose by 26% as a result of spending more time with their family and children and less time at work. If this is true for every man working in Australia, then if one in ten fathers spent more time with their children the results would mean a $4.6 billion boost to the economy

•  By 2020, the World Health Organisation expects that depression will be the world's second most disabling disease (after heart isease) with it affecting 1 in 4 women and 1 in 6 men