Right across much of the world

The workman, as a rule, works eight hours a day.

Laborers normally work 8 hours per day.

The workman, as a rule, works eight hours a day.

Those weren't the easiest of days

Other than a massive bill for overtime.

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The workers were laid off for three weeks.

The laborer was layed off for 3 weeks.

The laborers were layed off for 3 weeks.

Wasteful abusive and focused on labor productivity.

North America being a notable exception working hours have been coming down.

Let me write that down on the side here.

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Today, the average Korean works a thousand hours more a year than the average German a thousand.

The workers union called off their 24 hour strike today.

They are demanding shorter working hours.

But now it's turned around.

The other point is that it is hard.

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Argument continues about the White collar exemption that exempts specific white collar workers from the 8 hours in 1 day, 40 hours a week, working hours fixed by the Labour Standards Act.

The workers. The striver's.

Instead of laying off these workers, why don't we just cut their hours?

Nevertheless, there are ways to fix them without depending on public finance.

I'm one of the most active volunteer translators at TED.

The totality of this project involves tens of thousands of hours of human labor 99 percent of it done by women.

For example, love might not be a scarce resource. You might have an infinite amount of love.

Paid work in Germany in the year 2001

And if you go beyond sort of the country level, down at the micro company level, more and more companies now are realizing that they need to allow their staff either to work fewer hours or just to unplug to take a lunch break, or to go sit in a quiet room, to switch off their Blackberrys and laptops you at the back mobile phones, during the work day or on the weekend, so that they have time to recharge and for the brain to slide into that kind of creative mode of thought.

The tighter the government financing becomes, the more the citizens are burdened by increasing taxes.

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This is a treadmill.

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She quit her job because of the low pay and long hours.

So let's say Dustin charges, so the function, I'll call it d for Dustin.

The total calculation will show that manual labor takes less time.

This must be the old boy had your seismos working overtime.

Drive the kids to school on the way to the office.

Working backwards from what I want to know, let's see what I need to calculate.

Viceroy, time is of the essence

People working for the machines monitored by other people working for the machines.

Slave labour.

Skynet work camp.