62% College Students Admit Overtime Is Their Secret Escape — Here's The Real Reason

It's 8 PM, the office is half empty, the Noida metro is calling your name — par tu abhi bhi laptop ke saamne baitha hai, pretending to "finish one last thing." Sound familiar? Half of Delhi-NCR's intern army knows this exact scene.

We put this on Boomm and asked: Overtime ka reason kya hota hai? Is it genuinely the workload piling up, ya kuch aur chal raha hai? The split lowkey surprised us — a solid 62% leaned towards reasons that had nothing to do with actual work targets.

Why Delhi-NCR Interns Quietly Choose Overtime

Turns out, for a lot of college students juggling internships in Gurgaon and Greater Noida, staying back isn't about the deadline. It's about the four walls waiting at home or the cramped PG room with three other people.

One comment said it best:

"ghar ki tension se dur"

Ngl, that one line says more than a full survey could. The office desk becomes a weird safe zone — AC chalta hai, free wifi, aur sabse important, thoda mental space away from the noise.

The Office As An Unexpected Comfort Zone

It's a very NCR thing, honestly. When your PG feels like a shoebox and the commute is brutal, that extra hour at work feels like "me time" dressed up as productivity. No cap — half of us aren't grinding for a promotion, we're just buying ourselves some quiet.

There's something kinda real about it. We always frame overtime as ambition, but for a lot of students it's just a softer place to breathe for an hour before facing the chaos again.

So be honest — when you stay back late, are you actually finishing work, ya bas thodi der ki shaanti dhoondh rahe ho?