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Work week: How we view it is a joke
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Work week: How we view it is a joke

"I put in 88 last week, baby! I'm building the biz!" This is wrong on at least six different levels.

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Ted Bauer
Aug 30, 2016
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I've written about the standard western world work week a few dozen times by this point. I'll sprinkle some of those links later on in this post. Here's the basic deal with the work week: it makes absolutely no sense. In July 2016, about 125.51 million people in the United States were employed on a full-time basis. There is no way for 125.51 million peo…

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