How Did Work-Life Balance in the U.S. Get So Awful?

Re:How Did Work-Life Balance in the U.S. Get So Awful? by dvanduzer on Saturday June 01, 2013 @12:44PM (#5804712)

I came to a screeching halt when I read "The Great Workweek Shift" chart. I can't think of a more misleading way to present that kind of data.

Then "The Growth of Leisure Time for Men" chart is silent on whether the men with fewer than 12 years of education would prefer to swap this extra "leisure" time for paid work. In the last paragraph he refers to this as "downtime" instead.

Very little source data cited. Clever unit shifting on most of the graphs. Generally strange mixed messaging.

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Re:How Did Work-Life Balance in the U.S. Get So Awful? by ams6110 on Saturday June 01, 2013 @12:45PM (#5804716)

Yeah I think this is the first time I have seen "chronic unemployment" called "leisure time" but I guess technically it's correct.

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Re:How Did Work-Life Balance in the U.S. Get So Awful? by gohrt on Saturday June 01, 2013 @02:36PM (#5805267)

Technically unemployment is time spent looking for work. People not looking for work are excluded.

Naturally, such a distinction is difficult to do accurately.

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