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The Hill
2 days ago
- Business
- The Hill
The traditional 9-to-5 is being replaced by the ‘infinite workday'
While most of the conversation around the post-pandemic workplace has focused on remote working and RTO (return to office) mandates, new research is pointing to an emerging trend. Microsoft's latest Work Trend Index has found that the traditional nine-to-five workday is becoming obsolete, and is being replaced by the 'infinite workday' instead. The Work Trend Index found that the average American employee receives 50 work-related messages outside of standard business hours, 40 percent who are online at 6am are reviewing emails, nearly 30 percent check emails after 10pm, and one in five review work correspondence on weekends. Want to take your career in a new direction? Discover 5 jobs hiring across the U.S. Research Intern, J.L. Partners, New York Policy Analyst, First Nations Education Steering Committee, Greater Vancouver Engineer Policy Advisor (GOVEX), New Mexico Public Regulation Commission, Santa Fe Police Crime Analyst, City of Danville, VA, Danville Government Partnerships Broker, CivicReach, Raleigh This shift represents a fundamental transformation in how Americans work, with potential ramifications for everything from overtime regulations to employee wellbeing initiatives. The pandemic's lasting impact While the pandemic didn't directly create an out-of-hours work culture, it made it more normal, particularly in jobs that would have never been done remotely before. The shift to a more flexible attitude to working hours was necessary as adults juggled childcare or caregiving responsibilities during the traditional workday. However, this trade-off has now become embedded in workplace culture, several years after restrictions have become a distant memory, and mandatory RTO policies are paradoxically exacerbating the problem rather than solving it. This is because workers now feel pressure to demonstrate their productivity and commitment by working additional hours, particularly those who are desperately trying to cling onto whatever remote working privileges they have left. After all, how can any boss argue with an employee looking for workplace flexibility when they are visibly online well into the night? Another pandemic hangup that is affecting how we work is the amount of meetings we've become accustomed to. While camera-on video calls became a necessary evil during the pandemic, the default option to 'jump on a call' when an email chain would suffice means workers are spending much of their in-office hours on calls or in meetings that leave little time for focused work. In fact, 57 percent of meetings are arranged on the fly without a calendar invitation. Most meetings take place between 9am and 11am and 1pm and 3pm, and Tuesdays are the day when most meetings take place (23 percent). However, being trigger-happy when it comes to sending emails en masse isn't the solution either. Microsoft's research uncovered that the average worker receives 117 emails daily and mass email threads with 20-plus participants are up 7 percent in the past year. One-on-one emails are on the decline (down 5 percent in the last year). This means evenings and weekend hours are increasingly becoming the only times real tasks can be accomplished. Microsoft's research found that 29 percent of workers are diving back into their inbox at 10pm and 50-plus messages are sent and received outside of core working hours. Additionally, 20 percent of workers are actively working over the weekends and check their emails before noon on Saturdays and Sundays. Around 5 percent will also check their email after 6pm on a Sunday in anticipation of the working week. Hanging in the balance This transformation raises important questions about existing labor protections and overtime regulations. And while some off-hours work represents legitimate flexibility which allows employees to attend to personal responsibilities during traditional business hours, Microsoft's research also suggests that many workers are experiencing genuine work expansion rather than redistribution. One solution could lie in HR departments implementing screen time monitoring to get a better overview of working patterns, but this kind of intervention could also create a toxic work culture where anyone not working overtime could be viewed less favourably by management and lead to even more burnout. As such, when off-hours work becomes the norm, it creates what the report refers to as an 'infinite workday' where employees never truly disconnect. The death of the nine-to-five workday may be inevitable, but how America manages this transition will determine whether it leads to greater work-life integration or simply longer working hours disguised as flexibility in the long run. Looking for a new role? Browse thousands of jobs on The Hill Job Board
Daily Mail
29-07-2025
- Politics
- Daily Mail
Poll: Obama would beat Trump in theoretical 2028 matchup
By A new poll reveals who would win in a fantasy matchup between President Donald Trump and former President Barack Obama for president if they both ran for a third term. A new exclusive Daily Mail/J.L. Partners poll shows that Obama would win in a theoretical matchup. Of the respondents, 52 percent chose the former Democratic president and 41 percent chose Trump. Obama's 11-point majority over Trump stems from an enthusiastic Hispanic base, of which 73 percent selected Obama, and also 68 percent of black voters. Obama currently enjoys a 59 percent favorability rating while just 35 percent viewed him unfavorably. That's compared to Trump's 44 percent favorability mark. According to the exclusive poll, Trump has a 49 percent overall approval rating for his job performance as president, while 51 percent have an unfavorable view. American presidents are prevented from running for a third term, after the 22nd Amendment to the Constitution was passed and ratified in 1951. Trump has teased the idea in interviews, although he has conceded he is not yet planning on running for a third term. 'I'm not joking,' Trump told NBC in March, when asked to clarify his comments on the idea. 'But I'm not — it is far too early to think about it.' When asked about how he would do so, Trump said cryptically, 'There are methods which you could do it.' He also said he would 'love' to run against Obama. 'I'd love that …. That would be a good one,' he said to Fox News reporter Peter Doocy in March. 'I'd like that. And no, people are asking me to run, and there's a whole story about running for a third term. I don't know, I never looked into it. They do say there's a way you can do it, but I don't know about that.' Trump supporters have mused on a possible loophole in the law, if Vice President JD Vance won a presidential race in 2028 with Trump as his running mate. Theoretically, a President Vance could swear in as president and then resign, allowing a vice president Trump to ascend back into power. Obama also joked about the idea of a third term as his second term was coming to a close. 'I actually think I'm a pretty good president. I think if I ran, I could win,' Obama joked during a 2015 speech in Ethiopia. 'There's a lot that I'd like to do to keep America moving. But the law is the law, and no person is above the law, not even the president.' In 2020, Obama also joked that he would be fine with a 'stand-in' president where 'they had an earpiece' and he could control them. "You know what? If I could make an arrangement where I had a stand-in, a front man or front woman, and they had an earpiece in and I was just in my basement in my sweats looking through the stuff, and then I could sort of deliver the lines, but somebody else was doing all the talking and ceremony, I'd be fine with that,' he joked in an interview with Stephen Colbert. The poll was conducted July 9 - July 10 among 1,013 registered voters. It has a 3.1 percent margin of error.
Daily Mail
29-07-2025
- Politics
- Daily Mail
New poll shows astonishing outcome in fantasy 2028 match-up between Obama and Trump
A new poll reveals who would win in a fantasy match-up between President Donald Trump and former President Barack Obama for president if they both ran for a third term. A new exclusive Daily Mail/J.L. Partners poll shows that Obama would win in a theoretical matchup. Of the respondents, 52 percent chose the former Democratic president and 41 percent chose Trump. Obama's 11-point majority over Trump stems from an enthusiastic Hispanic base, of which 73 percent selected Obama, and also 68 percent of black voters. Independent voters also preferred Obama over Trump in the hypothetical match, 50 percent for the former Democrat to just 39 percent for Trump. Past American presidents sometimes benefit from nostalgia over a president currently serving in office. Obama currently enjoys a 59 percent favorability rating while just 35 percent viewed him unfavorably. That's compared to Trump's 44 percent favorability mark. According to the exclusive poll, Trump has a 49 percent overall approval rating for his job performance as president, while 51 percent have an unfavorable view. The poll also shows that Trump would still beat Hillary Clinton if she ran for president again with 44 percent support over Clinton's 43 percent. Trump would also beat former President Joe Biden with 44 percent versus just 40 percent support for Biden. American presidents are prevented from running for a third term, after the 22nd Amendment to the Constitution was passed and ratified in 1951. Trump has teased the idea in interviews, although he has conceded he is not yet planning on running for a third term. 'I'm not joking,' Trump told NBC in March, when asked to clarify his comments on the idea. 'But I'm not — it is far too early to think about it.' When asked about how he would do so, Trump said cryptically, 'There are methods which you could do it.' He also said he would 'love' to run against Obama. 'I'd love that …. That would be a good one,' he said to Fox News reporter Peter Doocy in March. 'I'd like that. And no, people are asking me to run, and there's a whole story about running for a third term. I don't know, I never looked into it. They do say there's a way you can do it, but I don't know about that.' Trump supporters have mused on a possible loophole in the law, if Vice President JD Vance won a presidential race in 2028 with Trump as his running mate. Theoretically, a President Vance could swear in as president and then resign, allowing a vice president Trump to ascend back into power. Obama also joked about the idea of a third term as his second term was coming to a close. 'I actually think I'm a pretty good president. I think if I ran, I could win,' Obama joked during a 2015 speech in Ethiopia. 'There's a lot that I'd like to do to keep America moving. But the law is the law, and no person is above the law, not even the president.' In 2020, Obama also joked that he would be fine with a 'stand-in' president where 'they had an earpiece' and he could control them. "You know what? If I could make an arrangement where I had a stand-in, a front man or front woman, and they had an earpiece in and I was just in my basement in my sweats looking through the stuff, and then I could sort of deliver the lines, but somebody else was doing all the talking and ceremony, I'd be fine with that,' he joked in an interview with Stephen Colbert. The poll was conducted July 9 - July 10 among 1,013 registered voters. It has a 3.1 percent margin of error.
Daily Mail
25-06-2025
- Politics
- Daily Mail
Poll: Americans reveal verdict on Trump's Iran bombing
Donald Trump earns a plurality of support from voters for his decision to launch bombs on Iran's nuclear facilities over the weekend according to an exclusive Daily Mail/J.L. Partners poll. Forty-nine percent of voters say the president's approach to Iran worked very or somewhat well while just 24 percent believe it worked very or somewhat badly. Eighteen percent of voters are neutral and 10 percent unsure. Republicans overwhelmingly backed Trump's decision to strike Iran as 75 percent said they supported his decision and only 12 percent opposed it. Trump's approval rating remains steady at 47 percent, as the president engaged in what the described as a 12 day war to eliminate Iran's nuclear facilities. Forty-five percent of voters said that Trump did the right thing by bombing Iran's three major nuclear sites and 31 percent said it was the wrong thing. Twenty-four percent said they don't know. But voters appear ready for the United States to be done with the conflict. Forty-nine percent say the United States should take no further action in the conflict and 59 percent support negotiations with Iran. And 46 percent of voters support the United States offering backup support for Israel's military. There is less support for more drastic action in Iran. Just 38 percent of voters support an additional air campaign, 27 percent support assassinating the Supreme Leader of Iran, and only 21 percent support invading Iran with ground troops. A majority of voters believe that the president should allow both Iran and Israel to handle the conflict on their own after the ceasefire was disrupted. Fifty-one percent of voters said leave both countries to it while 18 percent of voters supported additional strikes against Iran. Thirty-one percent were unsure. A majority of voters also shared the president's frustration with both countries after he described Israel and Iran as 'two countries that have been fighting so hard and so long that they don't know what the [expletive] they're doing.' Fifty-three percent of voters agreed with the president's statement and only 15 percent disagreed. A significant number of Americans support regime change in Iran, but only if the Iranian people do it themselves. Forty-seven percent support the Iranian people overthrowing the Iranian government with just 10% opposed But they are less supportive of American working to make it happen. Just 29 percent support the United States getting involved in a regime change operation and 34 percent oppose.
Sky News AU
20-06-2025
- Politics
- Sky News AU
‘Significant chunk' of US Republicans do not support Tucker Carlson's view on Iran conflict
Centre of the American Experiment President John Hinderaker says conservative commentator Tucker Carlson is not a true reflection of the wider Republican Party's view on the conflict in Iran. J.L. Partners conducted a survey which showed 81 per cent of MAGA republicans support Israel's strikes against Iran. 'I don't think there is much of a split in the MAGA movement on this Iran issue,' Mr Hinderaker told Sky News host James Macpherson. 'The idea that there is a significant chunk of the Republican Party that is isolationist or passivist or anti-Israel is just wrong. 'A guy like Tucker Carlson does not speak for any significant number of Republicans or MAGA believers on this issue.'
