This North Carolina city was named among the worst in US for potential worker burnout
Workers in one North Carolina city are among the most likely in the country to feel burned out, a new report finds.
Charlotte ties at No. 10 on a list of places where employees face the highest possibility of exhaustion, according to results released Monday from SmartAsset.
To come up with its findings, the personal finance website says it examined U.S. Census Bureau data from the 100 most populated cities in the nation. Analysts weighed the average number of weeks and hours worked each year, the portion of workers with more than an hour-long commute and housing costs in comparison to income.
The report found that Queen City residents are hard workers, ranking in the top 10 for the percentage of people clocking in more than 1,700 hours a year. That’s about “35 hours per week for 51 weeks,” results show.
“Additionally, workers (in Charlotte) average 39.7 hours per week on the job, the 19th-highest rate for this metric in this study,” SmartAsset said.
The results come as people in the U.S. are working more during the COVID-19 pandemic.
When coronavirus-related shutdowns started forcing people to work from home, service provider NordVPN examined its network and found employees were spending an average of three extra hours on their jobs per day, CNBC reported in March.
The SmartAsset study looked at 2018 American Community Survey figures, the most recent complete dataset available from the U.S. Census.
Overall, the worst city for worker burnout in the report was Aurora, Colorado, east of Denver.
This story was originally published September 3, 2020 at 9:52 AM with the headline "This North Carolina city was named among the worst in US for potential worker burnout."
