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10 of the hardest working cities in America

WalletHub came up with a list of the top 10 cities with the hardest workers.

By Lynette Gil | Updated on April 20, 2015

Someone recently said to me that people today don’t work as hard as people from past decades. However, it seems that our workday has remained pretty much unchanged for the last three decades. If anything, people outside the U.S., for example, in Europe, work less than eight hours a day. In the U.S., employees ages 25 to 54 spend an average of 8.7 hours a day in “work-related activities,” according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

This was not the norm in the 18th century, when the Industrial Revolution threw the world for a loop and workers would spend 10 to 16 hours at work. That was normal for them, but not so good for the human body, I’m sure. It wasn’t until labor unions started demanding a shorter workday and adopted the slogan, “Eight hours for work, eight hours for rest and eight hours for what you will,” that the workday shrunk to what it is today.

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