Doing Something about Long Hours
A RISING share of workers in the United States up to / ' almost one-third of the work force are regularly clockJL JLing workweeks in excess of the venerable forty-hour standard. Almost one in five, including both salaried and hourly, professional and blue-collar employees, now reports working fifty or more hours per week. According to a recent International Labor Organization study, Key Indicators of the Labor Market, the United States now "leads" the postindustrialized world in average annual hours of work just under 2,000 hours per year having outstripped even the proverbial workaholic Japanese in the penchant for hours spent working. This finding represents a