Unpaid overtime working is now up to a record value of £26.9bn annually, taking the TUC's Work Your Proper Hours Day 2009 up to 27 February. Fear of job loss in the downturn is contributing to this increase, but it may be putting staff health and productivity at risk.

Ivan Krstić with an account of shorters squeezed and fortunes made and lost at Porsche and Volkswagen.