Do You Ever Stop And Think About How Much Of Your Life Is Actually Yours?

As a child, I’ve seen my parents focused the majority of their time and energy at their work to provide for our family. In 2000, the U.S Department of Labor Bureau of Labor Statistics had recorded that working couples with children under 18 years of age worked an average of 66 hours a week compared to couples without children, who worked an

The average lifespan in the United States is around seventy-eight years. Higher paying engineering jobs require at least a full four years of college, two to three years of graduate school, and training for the position. While fast food cashier requires a few weeks of training. In these examples, time is being placed as a representation of money. Distributive justice is an equal spread of resources through out the society. Time is the most important resource in the world. It is unreasonable to place those two positions on equal terms

Work-life balance has been a popular topic for employees across all age and occupations for years, representing a rising concern of contemporary human resource management and labor policies. This topic has attracted the attention from the millennium generation, who is stepping into the market and beginning to grow a career. Therefore considering the increasing demand, well-designed workforce planning with diverse scheduling options offered to employees appears to be extra credits for most companies. This research paper aims to communicate the positive effects of four-day workweek, and providing support for why employers should adopt this schedule for employees and themselves through 1) introducing background and history of four-day workweek as a work schedule option and 2) demonstrating benefits of four-day workweek from both employer and employees’ perspectives.

Roughly four-in-ten mothers say they have taken a significant amount of time off from work (39%) or reduced their work hours (42%) to care for a child or other family member. Roughly a quarter (27%) say they have quit work altogether to take care of these familial responsibilities...(Patten, 2015 [see figure 3]).

Work is not something anyone look forward to stress, back pains, and talking to people. Americans work an average nine to five shift. Five

Over the last two decades, American workers have been clocking more and more hours on the job, and they now work more hours than workers in any other industrialized country. Annual work hours are 4% higher than they were in 1980, amounting to an extra 1 hour and 30 minutes at work per week, on average (ILO 1999). Workers are also clocking more overtime hours. Almost one-third of the workforce regularly works more than the standard 40-hour week; one-fifth work more than 50 hours. The growth in overtime work, while helping to drive the healthy growth in output in the U.S., has unhealthy social costs. It is taking its toll not only on workers, but on their families, communities, and, ultimately in many cases, patients, customers, and

In today’s society, the work industry is comprised of numerous generations from baby boomers to millennia’s. Due to reasons ranging from increased cost of living to political policies, Americans are being forced to work longer in order to obtain the social security benefits they’ve contributed to during their careers. Each generation has certain generational influences such as war times and civil rights for the baby boomers and social media and the technology boom for the millennia’s. One constant that has not changed, however, is that the average American has to work for a living, and with the evolution of the US economy, they are having to work longer and are retiring later.

Therefore, the work schedule of the majority of Americans is greatly time-consuming and restrictive in how their life is like. Employment is restrictive in the sense that it doesn’t allow for much free time for Americans to do things in their life how they would like. Hochschild states, “But without overstating the case, it seems true that capitalism is a cultural as well as an economic system and that the symbols and rituals of this cultural system compete with, however much they seem to serve, the symbols and rituals of community and family.” (Hochschild 187) Most Americans are employed around capitalistic ideas of efficiency. Employers require employees to commit long hours, days, and years of their life to working for them. Employers also seek maximum efficiency in the time that employees are working. This commitment that employees make to their employment takes away from things that they value as mentioned by Hochschild. Unfortunately, Americans are forced to deal with this because they want to establish economic stability for themselves. Furthermore, the work life of

Americans that work too many long shifts affect the lives of the people around them too. For instance, one statistic from a Family Matters Survey done by The National Partnership for Women & Families in 1998 found that, “70% of working fathers and working mothers report they don’t have enough time for their children”.Another statistic from this survey reported that over 80% of Americans found it diffcult to balance their work life and their personal life. In fact, it is estimated that around 11 million children age 5 and under spend time in a form child care facility every week(Child Care Aware of America). It is also estimated that children whose

Kelley attempts to appeal to our logical sides by giving us statistics such as “two million children” and even “11 hour night.” We know most people do not work this long even in a regular working day , which is around 8 hours.She also talks about how old the kids are when they start working, as young as 6 to 16, and even their work hours which vary from eight to even twelve hours which is half a day! These numbers are shocking and also true, furthermore, they can be trusted because of the credibility she

Suzanne Bianchi, John Robinson and Melissa Milkie’s Changing Rhythms of American Family Life were able to document that “mothers are spending as much time with the children as forty years ago, fathers were doing more at home and there is more gender equality” (Bianchi et al 2006, 169). In their data it showed the trend of workloads for both fathers and mothers to have increased “from 55 to 64 estimated weekly hours between 1965 and 2000 households with married parents” (Bianchi et al 2006, 171). This could attributed to that there was a big change that occurred that allowed more women and mothers to enter the workforce. Corresponding to the female participants in my sample that want to continue to work and further their career. Furthermore,

Personally I do agree with this statment, for the simple fact that with anything you do, you have to dedicate personal time to it. In life I believe that many people do not understand this concept. But thanks to my parents, I do know that with anything you do wether it be with every day realtionships, classic car building or raising a puppy it all takes your devoted time.

1. The average number of working hours in developed countries has changed over the past 150 years. It has:

The truth is that there are just not enough hours in a day here lately. Having gone from no job and no income to having a job that requires more time than I wanted to have to give up. As well, there were the holidays. I was the one on the job that was to work, while the senior employees enjoyed their time off, which is only fitting. So, there has been a shortage of time. 80 hours a week is a lot of time I don’t care who you are.

This not only would take far too long to make a difference in a lifetime study, but also would flip societies upside down. According to Derek Thompson, “The transition from labor force to leisure force would likely be particularly hard on Americans, the worker bees of the rich world”(Thompson 6). This will not work not only because automation technology will break and men will be needed to repair it, but also the technological needs of society would evolve and men would be needed to create the new technological innovations, promoting labor, rather than eradicating