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No. Certain employment sectors like Silicon Valley and Wall St. have created cultures of expected overtime, but they're very unrepresentative. The US overall
by fatbird 10y ago
No. Certain employment sectors like Silicon Valley and Wall St. have created cultures of expected overtime, but they're very unrepresentative. The US overall averages only 34.4 hours worked per week.
- rjbwork 10y agoTBF, aren't most people who work under 40hr/w want to work more, but are underemployed?
- manarth 10y agomost people who work under 40hr/w want to work more I suspect that they want to earn more. Most of those will be in low-pay, hourly-paid work.
- manarth 10y agoThe US overall averages only 34.4 hours worked per week Source? Forbes (in 2014) says the average is 47 hours per week [1]. Wikipedia (data from 2015) says it's 8.4 hours per day for a man, 7.7 for a woman (although there doesn't appear to be data on number of days per week). [2] OECD lists 1,790 hours per annum [3], which is 34.4 per week assuming no holiday is taken. The same OECD dataset gives the figure of 38.6 hours per week. [1] http://www.forbes.com/sites/niallmccarthy/2014/09/01/a-40-hour-work-week-in-the-united-states-actually-lasts-47-hours/#2f7ea5344ef1 http://www.forbes.com/sites/niallmccarthy/2014/09/01/a-40-ho... [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Working_time#United_States https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Working_time#United_States [3] http://stats.oecd.org/index.aspx?DataSetCode=ANHRS http://stats.oecd.org/index.aspx?DataSetCode=ANHRS