A survey has found that most workers in the UK require 19 hours to clear their heads from the previous week’s work. Most do not fully relax until 12.38pm on Saturday and start worrying about work again by 3.55pm on Sunday. Almost 50% of workers check work emails over the weekend and 60% admit to doing work at home over the weekend in order to catch up. Indeed, 40% said that they “would never get their work done” if they didn’t do work at home.

The study was conducted on behalf of a UK hotel chain, Premier Inns. This strikes me as a bit odd. Surely a hotel chain like this would want to conduct research into something like how little sleep the average worker gets or would promote some of the ways guests can relax in their hotels. After all, this is a hotel chain that offers meetings rooms and WiFi so that people can never stop working. Go figure.