阿莱西亚·蒙塔纳罗（Alessia Montanaro）即将结束她今年的第二个繁忙季节。自九月以来，她每周工作时间高达60小时，有时甚至工作到晚上11点，并且养成了在家办公室工作周日的习惯。
Alessia Montanaro is just about to close her second busy season of the year. Since September she's been logging up to 60 hours of work per week, sometimes going as late as 11 p.m., and making a habit of working Sundays from her home office.
这位30岁的女性在德克萨斯州奥斯汀从事公共会计工作，已经习惯了在报税季节进行这种高强度工作。她不是唯一一个周末工作的战士。
The 30-year-old works in public accounting in Austin, Texas, and has gotten used to these sprints around tax season. She's not the only weekend work warrior.
对于许多办公室工作者来说，周末已经成为他们工作周的非正式新起点。根据视频会议技术公司Owl Labs最近的一份报告，该公司在7月份对2000人进行了调查，误差范围为2%，近一半的工作者经常在周日上班。被调查者中有21%的人表示他们工作整天或几乎整天，另有24%的人表示他们经常工作几个小时。
For many office workers, Sundays have become the unofficial new start to their workweek: Nearly half of workers often clock in on Sundays, according to a recent report from Owl Labs, the video-conferencing technology company, which surveyed 2,000 people in July with a margin of error of 2%. Some 21% of people surveyed say they work the whole or nearly the whole day, and another 24% say they often do a few hours of work.
在剩余的工作者中，11%的人表示他们只是快速查看消息但并没有真正工作，18%的人表示他们很少在周日工作，26%的人表示他们从不在周日工作。
Of the remaining set of workers, 11% say they quickly check messages but don't really work, 18% say they rarely do any work on Sundays, and 26% say they never do.
自新冠肺炎疫情期间许多人的工作转移到家中以来，已经过去了六年，这为随时随地只要有Wi-Fi就能记录工作时间打开了可能性。虽然有些人淡化了工作并设立了严格的界限来保护个人时间，但技术使用数据表明，多年后，工作时间已经渗透到一天的每一小时。根据微软2025年的研究，所谓“无尽工作日”的兴起表明，标准周一至周五上午9点至下午5点工作时间之外发送的聊天消息年增15%，现在平均每用户达到58条。
It's been six years since work for many moved home during the Covid-19 pandemic, opening the possibilities of logging hours anytime and anywhere there's Wi-Fi. While some people deprioritized work and put up strict boundaries to protect their personal time, tech use data shows that many years later, working time has bled into every hour of every day. Chat messages sent outside of the standard Monday through Friday 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. workweek rose 15% year-over-year, now up to an average 58 messages per user, according to Microsoft's 2025 research on what it calls the rise of the "infinite workday."
在那些周末工作的人中，近20%的人在周六和周日上午中午前查看电子邮件，超过5%的人在周日晚上仍在收件箱中，据微软所述。
Among those working on the weekends, nearly 20% check their email before noon on a Saturday and Sunday, and over 5% are in their inboxes on Sunday nights, per Microsoft.
从这些在线习惯来看，随着随时在岗的工作文化占据主导，周末休息的神圣性可能正在消失。
As far as these online habits show, the sanctity of Sundays off may be vanishing as an always-on work culture takes over.
白天的干扰将工作推到周末 一些周末工作的员工表示，只有在周末或下班后工作，才能完成专注的工作。在工作日，“我会被拉向五个不同的方向”，奥斯汀的蒙塔纳罗说，这是因为同事和上级的消息或请求。
Daytime distractions push work to the weekend Some Sunday workers say working weekends or after hours is the only way to get focused work done. During the workweek, "I get pulled in five different directions" with messages or requests from associates and higher-ups, Montanaro of Austin says.
弗兰克·魏斯豪普特，猫头鹰实验室首席执行官表示，在无干扰的周日工作可以帮助员工完成更多任务。但这也可能是一个信号，表明典型的周一至周五工作周被琐事占满。
Working a distraction-free Sunday can help workers get more done, says Frank Weishaupt, CEO of Owl Labs. But it can also be a signal that the typical Monday-through-Friday is overloaded with busywork.
完成工作本身可能会造成干扰：根据微软的数据，员工在核心工作时间大约每两分钟就会因会议、电子邮件或聊天消息被打断。根据猫头鹰实验室的数据，大约38%的员工表示他们有会议疲劳，最常见的抱怨是会议太长且数量太多。
The work of getting work done can be disruptive: Employees are interrupted roughly every two minutes during core work hours with meetings, emails or chat messages, according to Microsoft data. Some 38% of workers say they have meeting fatigue, with the most common gripes being that meetings are too long and there are too many of them, according to Owl Labs.
员工在可能的情况下争取灵活性 魏斯豪普特表示，周末工作时间可能被视为一件好事，“因为这关系到员工对灵活性的需求”，以及对“微调工作”的日益兴趣——这是猫头鹰实验室创造的一个术语，意指在传统周一至周五上午九点到下午五点的时间块之外工作。
Workers carve out flexibility where they can Weishaupt says Sunday work periods could be seen as a good thing "as it relates to the employee's desire for flexibility" and a growing interest in "microshifting," a term Owl Labs coined to mean working outside of a traditional Monday through Friday 9-to-5 time block.
微调工作对妈妈、照护者以及任何可能需要在工作日请几小时假的人来说尤其有帮助。29岁的凯莉·冈萨雷斯说，如果她在工作周期间为医生预约、接送孩子上学或其他事件抽出了一些时间，她就会在周日在家登录她的客户经理岗位。
Microshifting can be especially helpful to moms, caregivers and anyone who might need to duck out for a few hours on workdays. Kylie Gonzalez, 29, says she'll clock into her account manager job from home on a Sunday if she took some time during the week for doctor's appointments, school pickup for her kids or other events.
但她担心在周末工作超过一小时左右，或养成这种习惯。“一些公司可能会利用这一点，因为他们看到这么多工作被完成了，所以会给你增加更多任务，”她说。
But she's wary of spending more than an hour or so working on the weekend, or making a habit of it. "Some companies may take advantage of that fact and add more to your plate because they see so much is being done," she says.
工作焦虑助长周末恐惧 魏斯豪普特表示，2019年的常态是周一去办公室，为接下来的一周做准备。现在这种准备工作正在转移到周日。
Job anxiety fuels the Sunday scaries In 2019, the norm was going into the office on a Monday and getting settled for the week ahead, Weishaupt says. That prep work is now shifting to Sundays.
“周日晚上我感觉很糟糕，因为我一直在想周一以及周五没完成的所有工作，”达拉斯的28岁战略顾问托比·柯林斯说。她的周末工作有助于她缓解周末焦虑，她说：“如果我能提前应对，我对一周的紧张感就会减小。”费城的42岁迪娜·奥特罗说，她过去经常在周末工作，甚至在度假归来的周日花时间赶上邮件，然后才正式返岗。她告诉自己，一周初多工作一点能帮她走在前面。实际上，这只是焦虑，以及”我认为自己能掌控一些其实无法掌控的事情”的思维方式，她说。
"My Sunday evening feels awful because I'm just thinking about Monday and all the work that I didn't finish on Friday," says Tobi Collins, 28, a strategy consultant in Dallas. Her weekend work helps her curb the Sunday scaries, she says: "If I just get ahead of it, I'm not as nervous about the week." Dina Otero, 42, of Philadelphia, says she used to regularly log weekend hours, even spending her Sundays back from vacation catching up on emails before her actual return to work. Working a little extra at the start of the week would help her get ahead, she told herself. Really, it was just anxiety and "my own way of thinking that I had control over things that I really did not," she says.
在当前艰难的就业市场中，当公司在裁员发生前就发出信号，减少招聘并提高对人工智能的期望时，魏斯豪普特表示，周末工作也可能是人们担心工作保障时过度工作的一个迹象。工人“会尽他们所能去抓住这份工作，这可能意味着他们只是工作更多，包括周末”，他说。
In the current tough job market, when companies are signaling layoffs before they happen, hiring less and raising expectations around artificial intelligence, Weishaupt says Sunday work could also be a sign of overworking when people are worried about job security. Workers are "doing anything they can to hug that job, and that may mean that they're just working a lot more, Sunday included," he says.
如果不加以控制，这可能会成为一个大问题。“如果40小时变成60小时，你知道你会出现倦怠，你会感到沮丧，然后当这种钟摆往另一边 swing 时，你会看到大量人员流动，”魏斯豪普特说。
That can become a big problem if unchecked. "If 40 hours become 60 hours, you know you're going to have burnout, you're going to have frustration, and then when that pendulum swings the other way, you're going to have a lot of churn," Weishaupt says.
华盛顿特区的45岁拉托亚·艾伦不确定额外工作时间是否总是值得的。她在2020年发现自己陷入了燃尽和流失的循环中，当时她对自己的企业科技工作感到失望，并认为其中承诺的成功和安全是虚假的。
LaToya Allen, 45, in Washington, D.C., isn't sure the extra work hours are always worth it. She found herself in a burn-and-churn cycle in 2020, when she became disillusioned by her corporate tech job and what she saw as a false promise of success and security.
她现在经营自己的精品科技咨询公司，并表示“几乎每天七天工作”是创业的一部分。但对于朝九晚五的工人来说，“我看不出周末工作如何能保住你的工作”，她说。“只是因为你的经理看到你在周日在Slack上工作，这又有什么关系呢？”
She now runs her own boutique tech consultancy and says working "pretty much seven days a week" comes with the territory of entrepreneurship. For 9-to-5 workers, though, "I don't see how working on a Sunday is going to save your job," she says. "Just because your manager sees you working on Slack on a Sunday, what does that matter?"