Those weren't the easiest of days

Nevertheless, there are ways to fix them without depending on public finance.

Right across much of the world

The workman, as a rule, works eight hours a day.

Laborers normally work 8 hours per day.

The workman, as a rule, works eight hours a day.

The tighter the government financing becomes, the more the citizens are burdened by increasing taxes.

Tom works long hours.

She quit her job because of the low pay and long hours.

Other than a massive bill for overtime.

Most of them don't want to go back to the countryside, but they don't have the sense of belonging.

I would like to show you how different the outcomes would be.

The workers were laid off for three weeks.

The laborer was layed off for 3 weeks.

The laborers were layed off for 3 weeks.

That manager often makes people work long hours.

Wasteful abusive and focused on labor productivity.

North America being a notable exception working hours have been coming down.

Let me write that down on the side here.

So, we tried to take this what was perceived as a negative their over competitiveness, their, you know, long working hours and turn it into a positive and not run from it.

I did some quick calculations.

Today, the average Korean works a thousand hours more a year than the average German a thousand.

The workers union called off their 24 hour strike today.

Workers put up with silly rules for a long time.

To cope with this problem, we had better quit working long hours, right?

They are demanding shorter working hours.

But now it's turned around.

The other point is that it is hard.

Argument continues about the White collar exemption that exempts specific white collar workers from the 8 hours in 1 day, 40 hours a week, working hours fixed by the Labour Standards Act.

But there was a pretty big problem with this.

The workers. The striver's.

Instead of laying off these workers, why don't we just cut their hours?

I'm one of the most active volunteer translators at TED.

The totality of this project involves tens of thousands of hours of human labor 99 percent of it done by women.

For example, love might not be a scarce resource. You might have an infinite amount of love.

Paid work in Germany in the year 2001

And if you go beyond sort of the country level, down at the micro company level, more and more companies now are realizing that they need to allow their staff either to work fewer hours or just to unplug to take a lunch break, or to go sit in a quiet room, to switch off their Blackberrys and laptops you at the back mobile phones, during the work day or on the weekend, so that they have time to recharge and for the brain to slide into that kind of creative mode of thought.

We negotiated with the president about our working hours.

Because of this experience, I never wanted to have another baby.

I see.

This is a treadmill.

Instead, I would rather say the effect is opposite.

MAN ( on TV )

He seemed to have been working for a long time.

He made nothing of working for a long time.