Lite Rock 96.9 » Americans http://literock969.com Lite Rock... Less Talk Tue, 18 Jun 2013 21:03:15 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 How Many Americans Work More Than 40 Hours Per Week? http://literock969.com/how-many-americans-work-more-than-40-hours-per-week/ http://literock969.com/how-many-americans-work-more-than-40-hours-per-week/#comments Tue, 19 Jun 2012 16:49:13 +0000 Shauna Wright http://tsminteractive.com/?p=112847 The eight-hour workday is fairly standard in the United States, and June 19 marks the 100th anniversary of it becoming law for federal workers back in 1912.

Private companies began to follow suit four years later, but these days, working only eight hours a day sometimes seems downright quaint.

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