2025-06-25
9 分钟Here's your money briefing for Wednesday, June 25th.
I'm Arianna Aspuru for The Wall Street Journal.
A recent study from Microsoft showed that the average worker gets 117 emails and 153 chats per day.
The ping after ping, combined with back-to-back meetings and a cooling job market,
means that more of your workday is bleeding into the evening.
They're almost doing three jobs instead of one.
They're doing a lot of jobs beyond what's in their job description.
And it's a lot because of layoffs,
but also it's driven by this idea that companies are really trying to be more efficient.
We'll hear from Wall Street Journal reporter Ray A. Smith about why some workers are burning that midnight oil and how you can reclaim some of your personal time.
That's after the break.
The classic nine to five is now looking like the nine to long after five or even later for some workers.
Wall Street Journal reporter Ray A. Smith joins me to talk about it.
Ray, what's causing this now?
There are a couple of reasons.
One is just because companies have been slowing their hiring of new employees.
And so that leaves a lot more work for current or existing employees to do that just gives them an increased workload.
And so they're having to catch up off hours, whether it's evenings or weekends.
Another reason is their days are typically stacked with back-to-back meetings.
So they barely have time to do the actual work that they're supposed to be doing.