Techies' work week will only get longer

Despite claims CIOs need to prepare for a 20-hour working week, most silicon.com readers believe their hours will remain the same or grow longer over the next eight years.

Nearly 40 per cent of readers polled said by 2015 they expect to work the same hours they do now.

And 31.5 per cent said their work weeks will grow longer in future.

One reader wrote: "This prediction [of a 20-hour work week] sounds like the one 30 years ago about robots doing our housework while we are enjoying ourselves.

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"Would be nice but I cannot see it happening. In the bank where I work, the general philosophy is: if it can be done from home, it can be done from India."

Recent research from Gartner claimed new technologies and social changes will enable IT chiefs to spend less time in the office in future and embrace flexible working styles.

Some silicon.com readers agreed with that sentiment. Twenty-nine per cent said they believe they'll work fewer hours by the middle of the next decade, revealing a marked variation in workers' expectations for their future working life.