By Sylvia Carr, 6 June 2007 11:33
NEWS
Despite claims CIOs need to prepare for a 20-hour working week, most silicon.com readers believe their hours will remain the same or grow longer over the next eight years.
Nearly 40 per cent of readers polled said by 2015 they expect to work the same hours they do now.
And 31.5 per cent said their work weeks will grow longer in future.
One reader wrote: "This prediction [of a 20-hour work week] sounds like the one 30 years ago about robots doing our housework while we are enjoying ourselves.
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"Would be nice but I cannot see it happening. In the bank where I work, the general philosophy is: if it can be done from home, it can be done from India."
Recent research from Gartner claimed new technologies and social changes will enable IT chiefs to spend less time in the office in future and embrace flexible working styles.
Some silicon.com readers agreed with that sentiment. Twenty-nine per cent said they believe they'll work fewer hours by the middle of the next decade, revealing a marked variation in workers' expectations for their future working life.
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1. anonymous
Be careful using terms such as 'pipe dream'. They will very probably be illegal after July 1.
2. Jay C
As long as greed continues to rule, we'll all be working more and more just to afford a house
3. Karen Challinor
techies work week will get shorter
mathematical fact
there are x techies working y hours
now if z techies are laid off and their jobs offshored their hours fall to zero
but thanks to the miracle of offshoring there are still x techies doing y hours although some of them are working in a different economy
it's a bit like the trick with the cups and balls
so now we have x + z techies working y + zero hours
dividin t'uther by t'which we find that the average techie is actually working fewer hours
who said offshoring was a bad thing