And on this measure yes, most certainly, Americans work more hours per year than Germans.
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An employee willing to work more hours for less pay during a season of limited cash flow.
The study found that American single mothers work more hours than single mothers in any developed nation.
Hesiod said if you want to have more wealth the only way is to work more hours.
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As a Wall Street Journal editorial calculated the other day, letting part-time workers work more hours can be expensive.
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People who do work more hours tend to become sick more often, are more irritable, less productive, and are not focused.
Because people with jobs are way overworked in the US, where people work more hours per year than most if not all other OECD countries.
The reason we have more goods and services than our grandparents did, even though we don't work more hours, is that productivity has grown so much since their time.
People facing a cut in housing benefit because they have a spare room in their council home could work more hours to keep it, the pension minister has said.
When you are asked to do more than you think you should, to do tasks beyond your capabilities or work more hours than your mind and body can take, you can quickly burn out.
Just ask yourself, if the guy who does your lawn, or cleans your house, or washes your car, or provides nearly any other service you might use, were to tell you his hourly rates were going up, would your first reaction be to ask him to work more hours?
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In such cases, people who work in the office will conform to the social standard and work many more hours.
While innovations in technology make it possible for people to work many more hours, it also means employees are sometimes less efficient.
"There's an upper limit - this isn't about unlimited hours but it is about allowing people to work more than 48 hours a week if they choose to do so, " he said.
That means that even though we have 3 million more people in work than the French, and work a lot more hours, we have very little to show for it in terms of greater economic wealth.
It raised minimum pay and promised in March to limit hours after an auditor hired by Apple found Foxconn employees regularly were required to work more than 60 hours a week.
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For employment to rise as work hours fall, Mr Fitzgerald reckons, weekly wages must decline proportionately more than work hours.
Only top performers are allowed to work more than 40 hours a week.
The French enshrined this fallacy in law in 1998, ruling that no one could work more than 35 hours a week.
These days over 85% of American men and over 66% of American women work more than 40 hours per week.
At the moment about one in 10 UK employees work more than 48 hours a week, according to the latest government figures.
The UK and at least 14 other countries use the opt-out, which enables workers voluntarily to work more than 48 hours a week.
In particular, it is uncertain what overtime rate people will be paid if they continue to work more than 35 hours a week.
If your caregiver wants the extra income, you can arrange for him or her to work more than 40 hours at the wage you have agreed to.
Borders considers employees who work 32 hours per week full-time, but under the new federal health law, employees who work 30 or more hours would be considered full-time.
Employment law states workers can work more than 48 hours in one week, as long as the average over 17 weeks is less than 48 hours per week.
For a professional caregiver who wants to work more than 40 hours a week at the regular rate (and many do), that option evaporates when overtime pay is required.
If the employer decided to let the employees work more than 30 hours (and pay the penalty), the money to pay the penalty would have to come from somewhere.
As we work more and more hours, and as more and more of our social interactions take place online, it only makes sense that we would do the bulk of our shopping on our computer too.
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Instead, "we still have a factory-based model and mindset for the way we work - the more hours we put in the better, which creates a hamster wheel frenzy, " says Ian Price, author of Activity Illusion.
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