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Americans Are Literally Being Worked To Death
By Michael Snyder
The Economic Collapse
Sept 24, 2012
Are you constantly tired and do you feel incredibly stressed almost all the time? Well, that means that there is a really good chance that you are a typical American worker. Even though our incomes are going down, Americans are spending more time at work than ever before.
In fact, U.S. workers spend more time at work than anyone else in the world. But it was not always this way.
Back in 1970, the average work week for an American worker was about 35 hours. Today, it is up to 46 hours. But there are other major economies around the globe that are doing just fine without burning their workers out.
For example, the average American worker spends 378 more hours working per year than the average German worker does. Sadly, for many Americans work is not even finished once they leave the office.
According to one recent survey, the average American worker spends an extra seven hours per week on work tasks such as checking emails and answering phone calls after normal work hours have finished.
Other Americans are juggling two or three jobs in a desperate attempt to make ends meet. Americans are busier than ever and work is often pushing the other areas of our lives on to the back burner.
When Sam Walton found out his employees were dieing faster than the charts allowed, he made his company take out life insurance on them to his benefit.
He even bragged about it in his book!
Anyone still want to shop at Wal-Mart now?