Labor Day exhausted: 40-hour work week grows to 47-60 hours
BY PAUL BEDARD | AUGUST 29, 2014 | 12:04 PM
TOPICS: WASHINGTON SECRETS JOBS LABOR WORK REQUIREMENTS
The old “9 to 5” work week is becoming about as obsolete as the American Dream.
A new Gallup poll finds that economically-stressed Americans are now working an “average” of 47 hours, with a growing number clocking 60 hours or more.
“Adults employed full time in the U.S. report working an average of 47 hours per week, almost a full workday longer than what a standard five-day, 9-to-5 schedule entails. In fact, half of all full-time workers indicate they typically work more than 40 hours, and nearly four in 10 say they work at least 50 hours,” said Gallup, based on their 2014 Work and Education survey.
Full time workers:
— Less than 40 hours per week, 8 percent.
— 40 hours, 42 percent.
— 41-49 hours, 11 percent.
— 50-59 hours, 21 percent.
— 60 hours or more, 18 percent.
Gallup said that salaried workers are putting in more hours, on average five hours more per week, 49 vs. 44 for hourly workers.
https://washingtonexaminer.com/american-dream-turned-nightmare-40-hour-work-week-grows-to-47-60-hours/article/2552623
OT is nice pay at time and a half when you can get it from suckers like Ridgewood taxpayers
I grew up in a middle class town from the 60′-80’s.
Most mother’s were stay at home moms.
Families vacationed for two weeks each year.
No one wanted for much.
We didn’t buy new appliances until the old ones were no longer repairable.
Now in the middle class, both parents work and struggle to pay the bills each month.
The children are in day care and after school programs.
That is a huge difference and is detrimental to family life.
It is also an unsustainable trend.
Aside from the social pressures to spend money, the root cause of this strife is the fact that we are now competing Globally for service and goods that were once produced by the American middle class.
The only way to overcome this situation is for the US Government to stop spending our tax dollars.
Leave the money in the hands of business and entrepreneurs.
With this extra money in hand the private sector will create, innovate and provide good paying middle class jobs.
Government spending only leads to waste, dependence and higher taxes.
Government = dead end
Private sector = prosperity for all
The extra hours being put in at work are simply a way of not wanting to be on the list of people on the next layoffs. People aren’t putting in the hours because they love their work. It’s all about self protection and avoiding the cut.
it’s all fucked up.
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