Slog - Comments on Enjoy Your Day Off? http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/07/enjoy_your_day_off Tim Egan, former Seattle correspondent for The New York Times, and now a guest columnist of the paper's Op-Ed page, compares American leisure with Italian leisure. (It's behind the TimesSelect firewall so I'll just give you the relevant portion.) Americans spend nearly a third of their disposable income on good times, baby. But we can’t relax. Sorry — no time. Lunch averages 31 minutes. And the U.S. ranks dead last among 21 of the world’s richest countries when it comes to guaranteed days off, according to the Center for Economic and Policy Research. Most Americans don’t even use their allotted... Copyright 2008 Thu, 05 Jul 2007 09:20:43 -0800 Thu, 05 Jul 2007 15:44:53 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.34 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Comment by JessB Canadians get more time off than Americans I think (I'm not positive) but my husband hasn't had a vacation in more than five years. We're going on one in a few weeks but among our class of folk this isn't unusual to be so completely overworked.

]]> JessB http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/07/enjoy_your_day_off#c758057 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/07/enjoy_your_day_off#c758057 Life Thu, 05 Jul 2007 09:39:48 -0800 Comment by Timothy Wind How appropriate. . .
A more important distinction is how we use our vacation time.

]]> Timothy Wind http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/07/enjoy_your_day_off#c758074 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/07/enjoy_your_day_off#c758074 Life Thu, 05 Jul 2007 09:58:27 -0800 Comment by maxsolomon early in the last century people DIED for the 40 hour work week.

]]> maxsolomon http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/07/enjoy_your_day_off#c758092 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/07/enjoy_your_day_off#c758092 Life Thu, 05 Jul 2007 10:07:42 -0800 Comment by Gloria Just because we sit on our asses in the office for more hours doesn't mean we "work" more.

]]> Gloria http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/07/enjoy_your_day_off#c758153 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/07/enjoy_your_day_off#c758153 Life Thu, 05 Jul 2007 10:54:20 -0800 Comment by Lythea That's why I'm going to stay a lowly cashier, and fie on you elitists. 2 weeks off my first year (paid of course), and more coming all the time. I feel positively European sometimes.

]]> Lythea http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/07/enjoy_your_day_off#c758465 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/07/enjoy_your_day_off#c758465 Life Thu, 05 Jul 2007 15:44:53 -0800