{"id":173587,"date":"2023-04-07T14:11:46","date_gmt":"2023-04-07T14:11:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/precoinnews.com\/?p=173587"},"modified":"2023-04-07T14:11:46","modified_gmt":"2023-04-07T14:11:46","slug":"americans-are-working-fewer-hours","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/precoinnews.com\/world-news\/americans-are-working-fewer-hours\/","title":{"rendered":"Americans are working fewer hours"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Americans, men especially, are working fewer hours now than they did before the pandemic, according to a new paper presented at Brookings last week.<\/p>\n
Why it matters: <\/strong>The research suggests that the decline in hours has something to do with a shift in attitudes toward work over the past few years, with more people reevaluating their work-life balance in favor of the life part.<\/p>\n What they found: <\/strong>The average workweek was 36.9 hours in November 2022, down from 37.5 in January 2020, according to data the authors analyzed from the Labor Department\u2019s Current Population Survey.<\/p>\n Perhaps surprisingly<\/strong>, men's average weekly hours have fallen more noticeably than women's, the authors found. <\/p>\n What's going on?<\/strong> It was easier for the highest-earning men, who likely aren't being paid hourly, to recalibrate their priorities and dial back their work hours, Shin writes.<\/p>\n The bottom line: <\/strong>Researchers are only just beginning to understand how COVID has upended the way we live and work.<\/p>\n\n
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