Do Americans work too much?
CNN has this interesting piece: Should America be France? “Do Americans work too much?”
“John De Graaf is busy, trying to make you less so. A Seattle-based writer and documentary producer, De Graaf is one of the leaders of a loosely connected group of social activists who believe Americans work too much. To dramatize the point, De Graaf and others are organizing an Oct. 24 event called ‘Take Back Your Time Day.’ ”
Wonder how much time he’s spent organizing it?
“Americans, on average, work 350 hours more each year than Europeans. That’s 9 weeks of labor. ‘Europeans have made a tradeoff between quality of life and hours worked,’ said De Graaf. ‘We Americans have chosen to trade all our increases in productivity for more stuff. And to pay for it, we need to work even more.’ “
