Fix Things, Never Force It: Lessons From Grandpa

Re:Fix Things, Never Force It: Lessons From Grandpa by rgbrenner on Friday June 14, 2013 @06:35PM (#5882906)

Here's a chart of average hours worked per employed person in the US from 1970 to 2011: http://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/series/USAAHWEP

Please point to the part of the graph that backs up your claim that people in the past worked substantially fewer hours, and that people today work substantially more.

Don't forget to divide the numbers by 52 for the weekly number of hours worked.

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Re:Fix Things, Never Force It: Lessons From Grandpa by dthtvwls on Friday June 14, 2013 @08:13PM (#5883281)

More than possibly those numbers could be from the increased numbers of people who've had to take up part-time work who would've been otherwise unemployed.

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Re:Fix Things, Never Force It: Lessons From Grandpa by TheCowboy on Saturday June 15, 2013 @01:36AM (#5884215)

There is also the conversion to an information economy with a growth in white collar jobs that are usually salaried with hours no longer being tracked.

Most employers report a normal 40 hours per week on paper, but that is usually the minimum expected.

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