If it feels like there aren’t enough hours to get everything done during the workday, you’re part of a growing club: More of us are working a second shift in the evening.⁠ ⁠ Workers slid into the habit of working at all hours during the pandemic, when many worked from home. Though fewer people are fully remote now, many are still toiling into the night—and say an expanding load of meetings, emails and actual work are a big reason.⁠ ⁠ The number of meetings people logged after 8 p.m. over the 12 months through February, in fact, were up 16% from the year before, according to new data from Microsoft on the activity of millions of workers who use the company’s business applications. By 10 p.m., nearly a third of them were back in their inboxes after pausing for dinner or home duties.⁠ ⁠ Many workers say the intensity is rising as companies slow hiring, trim costs and add more tasks to roles. Adoption of artificial-intelligence tools at work isn’t far enough along to lighten the load for most. Nearly two-thirds of U.S. workers said they don’t use AI much or at all on the job in a Pew Research Center survey this year.⁠ ⁠ Mentions of burnout by employees on job-review site Glassdoor, meanwhile, jumped 32% in the first quarter from a year earlier, hitting their highest levels in nearly a decade.⁠ ⁠ Read more at the link in our bio.⁠ ⁠ Photo: Getty Images/Westend61

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