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UN / ILO FLEXIBLE WORK
STORY: UN / ILO FLEXIBLE WORK
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SOURCE: UNIFEED
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LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: 06 JANUARY 2023, NEW YORK CITY / RECENT
RECENT - NEW YORK CITY
1. Wide shot, exterior, United Nations
06 JANUARY 2023, NEW YORK CITY
2. Wide shot, Dujarric walking to podium, press briefing room
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Stéphane Dujarric, Spokesperson for the Secretary-General, United Nations:
“A new report issued today by the International Labour Organization (ILO) shows that the COVID-19 crisis measures yielded powerful new evidence that giving workers more flexibility in how, where, and when they work can be positive for both them and businesses. Conversely, restricting flexibility brings substantial costs, including increased staff turnover.”
4. Wide shot, Dujarric at podium, press briefing room
A UN spokesperson said that according to a new report by the International Labour Organization (ILO), the COVID-19 crisis measures yielded “powerful” new evidence that giving workers more flexibility “in how, where, and when they work can be positive for both them and businesses.”
Speaking to reporters today (6 Jan) in New York, UN Spokesperson Stéphane Dujarric added, “Conversely, restricting flexibility brings substantial costs, including increased staff turnover.”
The report, Working Time and Work-Life Balance Around the World, looks at the two main aspects of working time; working hours and working time arrangements (also called work schedules), and the effects of both on business performance and workers' work-life balance.
It includes a range of new statistics covering hours of work, both before and during the COVID-19 crisis.
The study, which is the first to focus on work-life balance, found that a substantial portion of the global workforce is working either long or short hours when compared to a standard eight-hour day/40-hour working week.
More than one-third of all workers are regularly working more than 48 hours per week, while a fifth of the global workforce is working short (part-time) hours of less than 35 per week.
Informal economy workers are more likely to have long or short hours.
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