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Home workers putting in more hours since Covid: Research

People in many countries working from home have been putting in extra hours of work than normal since the coronavirus pandemic struck, research from a business support company has revealed. The company analysed data from the servers to find how private networks were being used by employees. The average working time for those logging in from home went up by at least two hours a day in the UK, Austria, Canada and the US since the coronavirus crisis, according to data. Another research suggested that as many as 44 per cent of