Crazy hours becoming the new standard – Forbes.com – MSNBC.com

Crazy hours becoming the new standard –
Forbes.com – MSNBC.com
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Just how bad have things gotten? That’s the subject of Extreme Jobs: The Dangerous Allure of the 70-Hour Workweek, a recent study from the Center for Work-Life Policy. The study found that 1.7 million people consider their jobs and their work hours extreme, thanks to globalization, BlackBerries, corporate expectations and their own Type A personalities.

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if you give up the 40 hour work week… you are betraying a long tradition that many people fought very hard to establish.