According to a Microsoft survey, the average worker spends 5.6 hours a week in meetings.
The average worker now has more mobile choice and flexibility than ever before.
In 1870, according to research from Michael Cox and Richard Alm, the average worker worked 3, 069 hours a year.
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Just look at executive compensation relative to that of an average worker and look at the ridiculous levels of compensation paid.
AFL-CIO and its sympathisers can produce figures to show that the average worker has lost out during seven years of sustained economic growth.
The OECD reckons that the average worker in its member countries currently gets a state pension of around 42% of his average earnings.
Yet, according to the evidence above, the average worker does not seem to be enjoying his fair share of the fruits of economic prosperity.
According to a survey by Salary.com, the average worker admits to wasting 2.09 hours of each eight-hour workday, not including lunch or scheduled breaks.
The authors' models suggest that a less equitable distribution of wealth can boost demand for government borrowing to provide for the lagging average worker.
In other words, it takes the average worker more than a year to make the money that his or her boss makes in one day.
By contrast, over that same period the remuneration package for the average chief executive doubled to a level 116 times that of the average worker.
According to a survey by Salary.com, the average worker admits to wasting about two hours of each eight-hour workday, not including lunch or scheduled breaks.
In the summer of 2001, a few members of the non-unionized workforce asked management for information about the wage per hour earned by the average worker.
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Given that the average worker now takes nine months to land a new job, initial unemployment claims fail to reflect the chronic problems of the long-term unemployed.
Meanwhile, left-of-center thinkers tended to accentuate the negative, arguing that the lot of the average worker has barely improved at all, and may have actually declined, since the 1970s.
Private sector workers around the nation already have the de-authorization option available to them through the NLRA. However, the average worker does not know about these rights.
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Previously perceived as a "soft" skill, " Hobsbawm, who also runs networking business Editorial Intelligence, says effective networking will make the difference "between a highly skilled worker and an average worker.
Four different decades, four different tax cuts and every single time the share of total tax revenue paid by the average worker fell while the share paid by the wealthy increased.
Kind business partners or even seasoned employees who have been around the block a few times are all willing to help individuals grow from being an average worker to being an exceptional contributor.
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When researchers in Germany did the math, they found that the average worker would need their income to go up by a third just to offset the happiness cost of tacking on a 20-minute commute.
Although George Bush's government has been touting low rates of unemployment for years, beneath the headline figures conditions have long looked less rosy for the average worker, with shrinking labour-force participation and stagnant real wages.
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In most high-tech fields today, the know-how needed to make a component, sub-assembly or finished product has progressed too far and too fast for the average worker to be able to propose any useful innovations.
So meanwhile, by expanding coverage for more Americans, we're going to help eliminate the "hidden tax" of more than a thousand dollars that the average worker is paying to cover the medical expenses of the uninsured.
In the late 1980s and 1990s, a doubling of unemployment over six years would probably have led to the real wages of the average worker being about 7% lower than if unemployment had stayed the same.
Although there are specific disciplines that follow trained approaches to working in Lean or Agile environments, the average worker or small business owner still needs to be able to show evidence of their ability to respond quickly and effectively to changes or unforeseen events.
Advocates of Social Security privatization typically note that if the average worker was allowed to invest the Social Security payroll taxes paid by him and his employer in a 401k account earning (historically) average returns, he would enjoy a much higher monthly income over the course of an average retirement than that afforded by Social Security.
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The biggest problem, from an economic perspective, is that despite all these ills attacking the labor force, government stats show the average worker is twice as productive today as he or she was 40 years ago, thanks to technology, meaning that an occasionally distracted employee is a small price for a business to pay for so much more output.
Glancing back at the last decade today, the average British worker might guess what the average gold buyer thinks he or she knows.
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On this basis, the average German worker is more productive than the average Greek.
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