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UK employees working two hours longer from home

A Glasgow online travel retailer whose sales have dropped 95 per cent in the past two weeks has donated 5,000 compression socks to help Scots nurses combat Covid-19.

Trtl travel boss Michael Corrigan is picstured with Glasgow

Royal Infirmary chief nurse John Stuart taking delivery of the socks

Worth £125,000, the colourful knee-length socks will help 5,000 acute nurses in six hospitals across Scotland fight fatigue in the coming weeks.

UK employees are working two hours longer per day, compared with immediately before the crisis, primarily from using their morning commute time to work longer, according to a report from corporate virtual network provider.

The analysis of Nordvpnteams’s clients indicated that their 10,000s of corporate employees that have started working from home in the past week are typically working 11 hours a day, some of the longest hours in the world at this time.

Most European countries are working slightly more, but the UK has the biggest increase. In the US, however, people have seen a 40 per cent increase in the average workday - the largest jump worldwide.

The data revealed employees are also starting work earlier - but finishing at the same time.

Daniel Marcusson, digital privacy expert of NORDVPN Teams, said: “The analysis of our clients indicated that their 10,000s of corporate employees that have started working from home in the past week are typically working 11 hours a day, some of the longest hours in the world at this time.”