Dear buckinghammike,
Below you will find the results of my research regarding your three questions.
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How many hours of overtime does the average American work?
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Using the 40-hour work week as the norm, we can calculate that the
average American works 6 to 7 hours of overtime a week.
I used the following sources of information to calculate these numbers.
According to Harvard economics professor Juliet Schor, ?people are
working harder than they ever have before. The typical American now
works 47 hours a week - 164 more hours than only 20 years ago.?
Fisher Vista life management employee benefits statistics
http://www.fishervista.com/statistics.htm
According to a study by the National Sleep Foundation, the average
American works an
average of 46 hours a week.
Source:
Winning Workplaces Ideas
eNewsletter, Vol. 2, No.12
January 5, 2004 http://www.winningworkplaces.org/forum/newsletters/pdf/winning_workplaces_ideasvol2no12.pdf
4.6 hours of overtime per week in 1998
?Yet today the 40-hour work week remains the legal norm - a norm as
often honored in the breach as in reality. Indeed, the average
full-time worker in the U.S. now works nearly 49 hours a week,
according to the Harris Poll. (Government statistics put the work week
at considerably less, largely because they draw their data from
employers; with the dramatic growth of part-time work someone putting
in 45 hours a week on three jobs would be reported as three workers
putting in 15 hours each - and drag the average down considerably. But
the U.S. Labor Department reports that the average manufacturing
worker put in 4.6 hours of overtime per week in 1998.)?
IWW
http://www.iww.org/projects/4-Hours/4-Hours.shtml
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What percentage of the workforce works through lunch/eats
lunch at their desk?
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Between 19 and 35% of the workforce eats lunch at their desk
Sources of information:
From a USA Today article published in September 2004:
A survey of 1,521 men and women was commissioned by the American
Dietetic Association and ConAgra Foods Foundation Home Food Safety
program.
(Margin of error: 2.5 percentage points.)
?35% say they eat lunch at their desk. While they're eating, they
typically work on the computer, read, make and receive phone calls,
write, do calculations or clean their desk or work space.?
USA TODAY: 9/30/2004
http://www.usatoday.com/news/health/2004-09-30-multitask-usat_x.htm
Another nationwide study states that 19 percent work through lunch every day,
Compensation news at Compensation.BLR.com:
1 in 5 Works Through Lunch
?A nationwide study of 700 employed people by OfficeTeam, an
international staffing firm based in Menlo Park, Calif., revealed that
19 percent work through lunch every day, while 43 percent do so at
least once a week.?
Compensation BLR.com
http://compensation.blr.com/results.cfm/type/20/topic/42/state/155
?According to a recent survey conducted by Office Team, a national
staffing service, 19 percent of respondents reported working through
lunch everyday, and a total of 62 percent admitted they work through
lunch at least once a week?.
St. Louis Commerce Magazine
http://www.stlcommercemagazine.com/archives/may2000/trends.html
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How many American workers take no vacation time at all?
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Using the data below, an estimated 41,550,000 Americans don?t take
vacation time at all.
According to the fourth annual survey by Expedia.com, at least 30
percent of employed adults give up vacation time they?ve earned. In
the process, Americans are handing back 415 million vacation days to
their employers. On average, every employed American misses out on
three days of vacation, up 50 percent from the two days they each
forfeited in 2003.?
?Survey Methodology Harris InteractiveŽ fielded the study from May
7-11, 2004, via its QuickQuerySM online omnibus service, interviewing
a nationwide sample of 2019 U.S. Adults (18+), of whom 1301 were
employed. In theory, with a probability sample of this size, one can
say with 95 percent certainty that the results have a statistical
precision of plus or minus 4 percentage points of what they would be
if the entire population of employed adults had been polled with
complete accuracy. This is not a probability sample. Data were
propensity-weighted to be representative of the total U.S. adult
population on the basis of region, age within gender, education,
household income, and race/ethnicity.?
http://www.expedia.com/daily/press/releases/2004-5-26Vacation_Deprivation.asp?CCheck=1&
?American workers talk about vacations, plan for them, dream about
them and then, never take them. In the United States 415 million
vacation days will go unused in 2004. Given a five day work week, that
comes out to 1.6 million years of unused vacation.?
Source "We're Skipping Vacations in Lieu of Working More," Chicago
Tribune, July 6, 2004, section 5.
http://www.swlearning.com/management/hrm_news/benefits_0804_001.html
The US Bureau of Labor Statistics reports there were 138.5 million
employed Americans in March 2004.
http://www.emarketer.com/Report.aspx?remote_may04
Thank you for your question and I hope this response has provided you
with the information you were seeking.
Best regards,
Bobbie7 |
