Today, the average American spends 8.8 hours at work daily, and the majority of working professionals spend additional hours checking in with work during evenings, weekends and even vacations.

如今，美国人平均每天工作8.8小时，大多数职场人士在晚上、周末甚至假期都会花额外的时间忙工作。

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You might even try working at a different time or in a different location to be more efficient in the same number of hours.

可以尝试将工作放在不同的时间或者不同的地点，这样会有充分的时间去保持相同时间。

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And even then it's hard to stop working for more than a couple hours before I find myself back in my office.

即使这样，几个小时之后，我又会出现在办公室。

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That wages are lower in China that in the US, working hours longer this may shock or even affront some of said activists.

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Even assuming you are willing to put in six hours a week, while you are working, that works out to be more than three years to get the necessary education.

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And the surgeons could be working even longer - the survey confined itself to hours spent on worked in the NHS, but the vast majority of consultants take on additional private work.

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