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For those interested in gaining insight on working hours throughout history, I would recommend you to take a look at OurWorldInData's empirical study. It looks
by Gpetrium 7y ago
For those interested in gaining insight on working hours throughout history, I would recommend you to take a look at OurWorldInData's empirical study. It looks at weekly work hours since 1870s, hunter-gatherer work hours, productivity vs annual work hours, etc.
https://ourworldindata.org/working-hours https://ourworldindata.org/working-hours
It begs the question, is a portion of society burning out because of the type of work, current lifestyle, our knowledge & expectation about the world, something else or a combination of factors?
- ghostbrainalpha 7y agoThat graph is amazing! For the people looking at it, you should know that you can click a button to add the United States even though it is not included by default.