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DRAUGHTSMAN David Lee likes to play Michael Buble's song [link widoczny dla zalogowanych] Home near knock-off time at his office.

"When Buble sings I wanna go home, I've got to go home', I'll turn up the volume. But my lady boss never gets the hint," he grumbles.

Lee, 36, says his boss has a tendency to call for a meeting or an "emergency" brainstorming session at 5.45pm. The staff only get to leave the office at 8pm most days and when there is a project deadline to meet, they burn the midnight oil.

[link widoczny dla zalogowanych] For many Malaysians, the long hours that Lee and his colleagues spend at the office is not something unusual. In fact, about a third of the Malaysian working population spend over 11 hours at the office daily, giving the ant colony a run for its money in the title race for "most hardworking".

According to [link widoczny dla zalogowanych] a global survey that [link widoczny dla zalogowanych] polled some 12,000 business people in 85 countries, Malaysians are not only clocking more hours at work but bringing their office load back home as well.

About 47% of Malaysian workers take tasks home to finish more than three times a week, compared to 43% globally; 15% regularly work more than 11 hours a day, compared with 10% globally.

The [link widoczny dla zalogowanych] survey by Regus, the world's largest provider of workplace solutions, also found "a clear blurring" of the line separating work and home with long-term effects, noting that such over-work could be damaging to both workers' health and overall productivity as workers may drive themselves too hard and become disaffected, depressed and even physically ill.

As Budget 2012 pushes for the retirement age of civil servants be raised from 58 to 60 and the proposed Private Sector Retirement [link widoczny dla zalogowanych] Age Bill empowering the Government to stipulate the retirement age of private sector employees, Malaysians look set to contribute even more to the country's economy. And they expect better rewards.

Malaysian Trades Union Congress (MTUC) [link widoczny dla zalogowanych] president Mohd Khalid Atan says the Regus survey confirms what the union has always known.

"The MTUC has been calling for higher remuneration and better benefits for a long time now [link widoczny dla zalogowanych] because we've [link widoczny dla zalogowanych] always known how hard Malaysians work. Unfortunately, employers always say that our workers are not productive enough even when we ask for minimum wage. I honestly don't know by what standards they are measuring our productivity. Perhaps with this survey, employers will finally see the light," he says.

National Union of Bank Employees (Nube) assistant general-secretary A. Karuna agrees.

Karuna, who [link widoczny dla zalogowanych] is also the Nube Kuala Lumpur branch secretary, says bank employees work late because they don't have a choice.
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