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Where'd you get this «less than four hours per day» thing?

• grandalf 15y ago
  http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/06/24/americans-work-less-than-four-hours_n_884037.html http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/06/24/americans-work-less...
  • mmatants 15y ago
    The "four hours a day" figure cannot be construed as evidence of laziness. The article states that that average includes the unemployed or part-time workers. In fact, same article mentions a 7.5 hour average when only working days are counted.
  • m3koval 15y ago
    That's four hours per day averaged over the entire study. These statistics are more telling: "Employed persons worked an average of 7.5 hours on the days they worked. More hours were worked, on average, on weekdays than on weekend days--7.9 hours compared with 5.5 hours." This about matches what you would expect for full-time employees. I'm not sure how this can be construed as laziness. In fact, there are several studies that show the exact opposite: Americans working more hours than most other first-world countries. I do not have links handy, but I believe one was posted on HN a few months ago. Source: http://www.bls.gov/news.release/atus.nr0.htm http://www.bls.gov/news.release/atus.nr0.htm