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WSJ Your Money Briefing

Why More Workers Are Putting in Extra Hours After the Workday

WSJ Your Money Briefing

The Wall Street Journal

Business News, News

4.11.7K Ratings

🗓️ 25 June 2025

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Summary

Thanks to a growing number of meetings, messages, and actual work, more employees are finding it difficult to log off after regular work hours. Wall Street Journal reporter Ray A. Smith joins host Ariana Aspuru to discuss how to get your time back.  Sign up for the WSJ's free Markets A.M. newsletter.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:33.7

Here's your money briefing for Wednesday, June 25th. I'm Mariana Aspuru for the Wall Street Journal.

0:43.3

A recent study from Microsoft showed that the average worker gets 117 emails and 153 chats per day.

0:53.3

The ping after ping, combined with back-to-back meetings and a cooling job market,

0:59.8

means that more of your workday is bleeding into the evening.

1:03.6

They're almost doing three jobs instead of one.

1:06.5

They're doing a lot of jobs beyond what's in their job description.

1:10.1

And it's a lot because of layoffs, but also it's driven by this idea that companies are really

1:16.1

trying to be more efficient.

1:18.0

We'll hear from Wall Street Journal reporter Ray A. Smith about why some workers are burning

1:22.6

that midnight oil and how you can reclaim some of your personal time.

1:27.3

That's after the break.

1:38.6

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