She says the move would allow an extra 235 hours of daylight after work every year and deliver benefits including 100 fewer deaths from road crashes annually.

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Taking a purely financial approach, Gartner Group examined how many extra hours per week workers on various salaries would have to work to recoup the extra cost of deploying notebooks.

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New research from The University of Texas at Austin shows that employees who work from home hoping to take it easy (or save on gas as the case may be) work an average of five to seven extra hours a week.

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When the recession hit, workers had built up a large number of extra hours in their working-time accounts that could be wound down as work dried up.

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Research by the Chartered Management Institute shows that the vast majority of managers work over their contracted hours, but clearly this is futile if the extra time is not being used productively.

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