Are New Zealanders overworking?

Information overload and increasing demands from employers mean many of us are struggling to cope with the relentless pressures of the job.

By Joanne Black In Current Affairs

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30th May, 2012

He has covered momentous political events and rarked up politicians on all sides of the House but one thing Duncan Garner hasn’t seen is his daughters, aged 9 and 11, play Saturday sport. He has never had the time. Now Garner, 38, has handed in his notice as TV3’s political editor to take up a new role in December as host of Radio Live’s Drive show from 3.00-6.00pm weekdays. He will walk away from a job he describes as “lovely, fantastic, well-paid and influential, but, my God, you work every living second. “I’ve quit because, to be brutally honest about a brutal job, I am exhausted.” Garner ...

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