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47 is the new 40.
The average American workweek has long been boasted to be precisely 40 hours a week. Eight hours a day, five days a week of pure, unproductive boredom. However, a recent Gallup poll reveals that the average employee logs 47 hours in the office per week, on average.
This isn’t a new revelation. In fact, over the past decade the average length of the American workweek has hovered around 47—with a dip in 2005-6 in which the average length dipped to 44.9. Those must’ve been the glory days.
Of the Gallup poll respondents, 42% reported working a 40-hour week versus only 8% of full-time employees working less than that. 21 percent of Americans now work between 50 and 59 hours per week, and 18% spend 60+ hours in their cubicles every five work days.
So why the increase? Gallup lists a number of speculative factors that contribute to the extended workweek, reporting pay structure as an incentive to stay in the office longer.
Whatever the reason, everyone is working a little harder for the weekend.
[via Forbes]
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I’m at the office for 10 hours a day, and I’m on salary. Fuck everything.
Oh so it’s based off a poll of employees? Wouldn’t pay it much attention then. Most people inflate how long and how hard they work. I’ve got friends who if they have to stay at work till 5:30-5:45, it suddenly becomes “dude I worked 12 hours today.”
40 hour work week? I remember my first beer.