Australians are doing more unpaid overtime work than ever before

The Australia Institute's Centre for Future Work has found employers are getting six hours of free work each week per employee.

Employees of Dai-ichi Life Insurance Co. leave office at 3pm as a govt campaign encouraged workers to leave the office early on the last Friday of each month. Source: AAP

New research shows the average Australian is now working two months of unpaid overtime a year. 

The report has found Australian employees will work a total of about 3.2 billion hours in unpaid overtime this year.

It found unpaid work is highest among the self-employed, at over eight hours a week, followed by full-time workers at seven hours a week.

Part-timers averaged over four hours without compensation, and casuals averaged almost three.

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