These threads are always interesting because on the one hand, Obama’s economy sucks and people are working in low paying jobs that hardly give them enough money to live. On the other hand, if the economy was in a true recovery or boom, we would realize that American workers never had it so good from a historical perspective. In a good economy, an article like this would be laughable — perhaps people work 46 hours but it ain’t exactly back-breaking work. Most Americans have nice work environments and plenty of break time. And they goof off in work too. In a recession, that changes. And in an Obama recession that goes on forever, its especially painful.
My personal observations:
* With high unemployment, managers can demand holidays, overtime and additional load from the productive who worry they cannot find anything else. Fear of a poor economy causes more people to put up with unsustainable loads.
* With the Obamacare costs and other overhead costs high per employee, employers will maximize output on a few instead of higher more heads, because they cannot afford to hire more people. Businesses overload current people out of fear to add to head count.
Your post is more disinformation than anything.