UVA professor Leidy Klotz says we’re packing work into every corner of the day, from 6 a.m. emails to 8 p.m. meetings.

Microsoft data shows that many workers put in an "infinite workday." And, the Microsoft team says AI could actually make the situation worse.© Photo illustration by Getty Images ...

"The modern workday for many has no clear start or finish," write the authors of the Work Trend Index Special Report, which looked at anonymized data from millions of global users of Microsoft 365 ...

This perpetual work overload means a third of professionals reopen their inbox to answer more emails at 10pm. In short, ...

If your first task of the day is triaging a bulging inbox at 6am, you are not alone. A recent Microsoft report headlined ...

According to Microsoft's data, employees are interrupted every two minutes by meetings, emails or messages, and receive an average of 117 emails and 153 Teams messages each workday.

Why do our workdays feel like they never end, whether we’re heading home for the evening or even jetting off on holiday?

"Our research, based on trillions of globally aggregated and anonymized Microsoft 365 productivity signals, reveals a challenging new roadblock: a seemingly infinite workday," Microsoft noted.

“The infinite workday… starts early, mostly in email, and quickly swells to a focus-sapping flood of messages, meetings, and interruptions,” Microsoft said in a report Tuesday.

“The infinite workday… starts early, mostly in email, and quickly swells to a focus-sapping flood of messages, meetings, and interruptions,” Microsoft said in a report Tuesday.

“The infinite workday… starts early, mostly in email, and quickly swells to a focus-sapping flood of messages, meetings, and interruptions,” Microsoft said in a report Tuesday.