the standard 40 hours – the equivalent of working an extra day. In December, The Economist reported that 60% of workers who use smartphones are connected to their jobs for over 13 hours a day. The deluge of work affects women – specifically mothers – more than men. American mothers only have an estimated 36 minutes of free time.

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Employers haven't tacked on an increase in pay along with the increase in hours; worker productivity increased 400% since 1950, but wages have remained virtually unchanged. Meanwhile, the average income of the top 1% surged over 240% since then.

The new American workday's only rewards come in the form of psychological malaise and physical maladies. Working long hours doubles the risk of depression, causes binge drinking, and sitting at a deskThis invention relates to magnetic suspension bearings, and more particularly to a magnetic suspension bearing for supporting a rotatable body and having two annular magnet assemblies which are axially aligned and magnetically poled so as to repel one another.
Known applications of magnetic bearings include the support of the rotor shaft of a watt-hour meter, the weight of which shaft and associated rotating bodies connected thereto being partially or completely compensated by magnetic fields. In the case of partial weight compensation, the pressure applied by the end of the shaft to a support bearing is reduced. In cases of complete weight compensation, the shaft is suspended in position by magnetic force. One known design of a magnetic suspension bearing for a vertical shaft contains a plurality of magnet systems