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Overall Americans are not suffering from workaholism.

Americans are working less hours than they ever have as a whole.

The BLS reports the average is down to 34.5 hours per week:

http://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.t18.htm

The hours per year are comparable to Japan, Italy, Canada, New Zealand, and only 1.4% greater than the OECD average:

http://stats.oecd.org/Index.aspx?DataSetCode=ANHRS

Meanwhile, a smaller percentage of Americans are working than at any other time than in the past 35 years:

http://i.imgur.com/c5iStWB.jpg



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