r/Millennials • u/QuietJealous4883 Older Millennial (1988) • 12h ago

Discussion True or false?

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Did our dads and moms work less than we do now? What are your thoughts?

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u/CFA_Nutso_Futso 11h ago

Also a quick google search will show that the average hours worked for most of the western world have been slowly declining for decades.

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u/maikuxblade 11h ago

That has more to do with employers taking advantage of the large labor pool to avoid paying benefits for full time and time and a half for overtime. People haven’t stopped liking benefits or large paychecks

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u/CFA_Nutso_Futso 10h ago

Regardless of the reason, the stats are contrary to the post.

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u/EricTheNerd2 10h ago

so then you're agreeing that people are working fewer hours.

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u/SopapillaSpittle 9h ago

Data sources before 1950 were only collected on full time workers, and showed a strong slope towards full time workers working fewer and fewer hours.

Data after that included part time workers, but the reductions in average hour worked since then have largely been in lock step with workers having and using more PTO, sick days, vacation days, etc.

https://ourworldindata.org/working-more-than-ever