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

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