Bringing lunch from home can help the average worker do more doing the work day, rather than spending time chasing down that delivery menu or running out to buy food over the lunch hour.

比起花时间研究点什么外卖或是跑出去买吃的，从家里面带饭一般来说会更节省时间。

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In 2009, for instance, the chief executives of Britain's 100 largest companies earned on average 81 times more than the average pay of a full-time worker.

比如在2009年，英国100家最大公司的主管的平均工资是全职工人平均工资的81倍之多。

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With the average full-time worker working only 33.1 hours a week, which is virtually the lowest on record, some 40 percent of the families currently on food stamps have "earned income, " the Financial Times reported.

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Contrast that with this startling statistic from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics: as of 2010, the average time an American worker stays at a job is less than four and a half years.

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Around 40% of the network still uses outdated analogue technology. (Argentina, which privatised its phones in 1991, has an almost fully digital network.) That, plus equally outdated labour practices, has meant that Brazil's telecoms industry has an average of one full-time worker per 108 lines, less than half the productivity achieved in the United States.

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