The average American work week is almost six long days

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For many adults who work full time, the weekly routine feels about six days instead of five. They're not bad. This is due to a recent Gallup survey found that half of full-time work in the United States more than 40 hours per week, with four out of ten say they work 50 hours or more. Only 8 percent of respondents said they made less than the national average more than 40 hours to work.

If International Business Times suggested the working week seems to be by, they were more than usual no joke. The average American now works on average 47 hours per week, working six days a week, basically.

For comparison, the week of the nation in the short working, the Netherlands, an average of 29 hours per week with an average income of $ 47,000, says CNN Money . A full-time American average about $ 40,000 in 2013 according to a Bureau of Labor Statistics exhaust.

Several factors determine the American calendar. Industrial employees earn when they are on the clock so that they have clear intentions to stay longer. What makes it strange that schedules an average of 44 hours per week employees.

However, employees tend to an average of five hours. What is the norm for many employees, says 25 percent of Gallup poll that working more than 60 hours per week. This may result from the knowledge that the company will not have to work overtime, employees are to be paid. From the perspective of the employee, the disk image working America might be almost as a badge of honor to some working-Marathon.

If the countries who have worked the least amount of hours in the week, look, factors to reconcile how the four-day-week paternity leave and extended the government's measures in working life term status.

The Netherlands is also aimed at working mothers. The importance of family is evident when 86 percent of working mothers in the Netherlands with 34 hours or less per week in their callings. Another factor that changes in some countries such as Ireland (34 hours per week, down from 10 hours in the last 30 years), the sharp decline in full-time farmers, for one of the areas of long working hours is known. Rounding out the top five other countries were Denmark, Norway and Germany, with take 33 to 35 hours.

In most of these countries, there are other benefits, such share as programs permits and paid work, a concept that grew in popularity during the recession in Germany. In the United States, the company will begin to pay employees to go on vacation to leave the office. It's hard to say if this is a culture or is too deeply rooted in the American psyche, of working life problem of the United States, to accept most of the time. While there are fewer full-time employees in 2007, the mentality of non-stop work has not fluctuated much in the United States.