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Too much work and too few paid hours?

The 2025 Go Home on Time survey highlights widespread dissatisfaction with paid work hours, and employees working excessive unpaid overtime.

By Fiona Macdonald

Taking up the right to disconnect?

Unsatisfactory working hours and unpaid overtime: 2024 update

By Fiona Macdonald

Short Changed

Despite record-low unemployment, Australian employers are still managing to steal more than 280 hours from their employees each year.

By Fiona Macdonald

Theft by any other name: Go Home on Time Day 2022

Australian workers are on average working 6 weeks unpaid overtime per year, costing over $92 billion dollars in unpaid wages

By Eliza Littleton

Call Me Maybe (Not)

Working overtime and a right to disconnect in Australia

By Eliza Littleton, Lily Raynes

Working from home, or living at work?

2021 marks the thirteenth annual Go Home on Time Day (GHOTD), an initiative of the Centre for Future Work at

By Dan Nahum

Work and life in a pandemic

2020 marks the 12th annual Go Home on Time Day, an initiative of the Centre for Future Work at the

By Dan Nahum

Excessive hours and unpaid overtime: 2019 update

New research from The Australia Institute’s Centre for Future Work estimates that Australian workers are currently working an average of

By Bill Browne

Under the employer’s eye: electronic monitoring & surveillance in Australian workplaces

Each year the Centre for Future Work at the Australia Institute conducts a public survey of Australian working hours, as

By Troy Henderson, Tom Swann, Jim Stanford

Excessive hours and unpaid overtime: 2018 update

2018 marks the 10th annual Go Home on Time Day (GHOTD), an initiative of the Centre for Future Work at

By Troy Henderson, Tom Swann

Excessive hours, unpaid overtime and the future of work

2017 marks the 9th annual Go Home On Time Day (GHOTD), an initiative of the Centre for Future Work at

By Troy Henderson, Tom Swann

Hard to get away: is the paid holiday under threat in Australia?

The focus of this year’s Go Home on Time Day is the threat to the ‘Great Aussie Holiday’. Thanks to

By Troy Henderson