The average Canadian worked 1,751 hours in 2004. That's about 300 hours — or 43 seven-hour days — more than the Dutch, Germans, French or Danes. - TheStar.comInstead of raising my pay (which hasn't happened anyways) - why not just lower the expected hours I work in a week or add a week or two to holiday time? Any thoughts out there in blogland? Do we work to live or live to work? Are our values so upside down in North America that we have forgotten the value of rest & play?
Wednesday, May 24, 2006
Do We Work Too Much?
Hmmm...understatement of the year. Apparently, working less may even benefit the business world never mind the average worker - check out this link.
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It's been a step backwards for me, moving back to Canada from spending 6 years in Eastern Europe. You start with one month's vacation, and it goes up from there. I come back here, and it's back to two weeks.... dumb. Simply dumb. What for? Really, will the economy really crash if we got more time off? How much work will not get done? Will that really matter?
I don't think it matters that much, but time with my kids, with my wife, with family... that matters. At least to me.
I used to hear that the French were lazy and I never knew why people said that. Then I found out they have 30 hour work weeks - does that make a people lazy or simply smarter with their use of time. Computers, PDAs, cellular phones, networking, emails were all supposed to make our lives easier and more efficient but the result is the 40-60 hrs we work a week are that much more intense.
I'm very fortunate for the holidays I do get as a prof; althought it isn't as much as many people assume.
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