For eight years I worked for a company where the standard workweek was 46 hours.

年来，我一直为一家每周标准工作时为46小时的公司工作。

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Broadcasters, however, never felt guilty even when actors worked 100 hours overtime, reasoning they are not under legal protection of standard labor law.

尽管如此，广播公司竟然没有为演员超时工作100小时的事件感到羞愧，原因是因为这些演员并没有处于标准劳动法律的法定保护之下。

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And a spokesman for the Work Foundation, cites research suggesting that employees working for more than 11 hours a day are also two-thirds more likely to develop heart disease than those who have worked for the standard seven to eight hours per day.

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For the same number of hours worked, workers can enjoy the same standard of living even as they allocate more of their working time to purchasing health care.

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We should bear in mind that total output and our standard of living depend on the productivity of our workers (output per hour worked) times the number of hours worked.

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