As Women's Rep and Acting Dep. Chair of our union at work, I have been encouraging staff to log their hours for about a month before going to their section manager to discuss the workload issues.

I suggest any of you do this if you have workload issues. Quint is right - you need to be honest and upfront with your boss.

I made a decision last year to try and stop bringing work home.

This year my decision is to cut the "try" out of the sentence. I know there will be times when I have students work I need to bring home to finish marking, but I have already crossed off days in my diary to do marking at work throughout the year.

Anything extra I do at home/in my time I log - most commonly this is the on-line component of my classes which I often do when I cant sleep (today I was on one class forum from 4-5:30am).

My decision to stop doing long hours at the office was fuelled by missing my partner and him feeling it too, as well as getting home some nights and finding children in bed - or asleep!

My decision to stop bringing my work home was fuelled by my youngest who would angrily tell me he hated my laptop...