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Survey: 9-to-5 workday is fading away

WASHINGTON — Soon, the phrase “9 to 5” will likely refer to nothing more than a baseball score.

A survey released Thursday says that almost two-thirds of American workers think the eight-hour day is a thing of the past.

Half of them keep checking work email when they’re out of work, and more than a third say they work beyond traditional office hours.

One out of five keeps thinking about work until he’s asleep, and more than 40 percent wake up thinking about work.

The study from CareerBuilder, reported in the Miami Herald, says that men are more likely than women to work outside of office hours, but women are more likely to be thinking about work as they drop off to sleep at night.

But about two-thirds of the workers surveyed say they work a different set of hours per day by choice.

White Sox chairman Reinsdorf officiates wedding of former Rookie of Year Kittle during game

CHICAGO (AP) — As the White Sox were slugging their way to a 22-1 victory over the Royals on Friday night, former player Ron Kittle was getting married in a ballpark suite with Chicago chairman Jerry Reinsdorf officiating. Kittle tied the knot with his girlfriend, Barbara, in Reinsdorf’s suite during Chicago’s 10-run third inning. The White Sox went on to score their most runs since a 22-13 victory at Boston on May 31, 1970. “He’s so superstitious he might marry somebody today in the bottom of the third,” Kittle, the 1983 AL Rookie of the Year, said Saturday about Reinsdorf. Harold Baines and Greg Walker, Kittle’s teammates on the 1983 White Sox squad, and their spouses also attended the quick ceremony.
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