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  2. Work–life balance in the United States - Wikipedia

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    As previously mentioned, Americans work approximately 47.1 hours each week; some employees work up to seventy hours. Therefore, it is safe to state that the average number of hours Americans presently work each week is the highest it has been in nearly seventy-five years. In 1900, only nineteen percent of women of working age were in the labor ...

  3. History of economic inequality - Wikipedia

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    Daron Acemoğlu argues that 21st-century Fordism opened up new tasks to workers each time a task was automated, effectively increasing workers' wages unlike in the nineteenth century, thereby increasing consumption, and therefore the income of companies, which then began to produce more, and so on, forging a virtuous circle between economic ...

  4. American workers keep proving they don’t need to return to ...

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    The productivity of U.S. workers grew 5.2% in the third quarter, at the fastest pace since 2020.

  5. Hawthorne effect - Wikipedia

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    The Hawthorne effect is a type of human behavior reactivity in which individuals modify an aspect of their behavior in response to their awareness of being observed. [1] [2] The effect was discovered in the context of research conducted at the Hawthorne Western Electric plant; however, some scholars think the descriptions are fictitious.

  6. Women more productive than men [Video] - AOL

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    Women are being assigned more work than men, but they're completing their tasks in the same amount of time as their male counterparts, according to Hive.

  7. Workforce productivity - Wikipedia

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    It results in increased productivity, reduced absenteeism, and enhanced physical and mental well-being, as employees exhibit higher commitment and motivation towards their work. Companies that promote a healthy work-life balance, provide mental health support, and encourage overall well-being tend to have more productive and engaged employees ...

  8. Labor history of the United States - Wikipedia

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    Their husbands' income effect was historically even more positive than white women's. During the war, African American women engagement as domestic servants decreased from 59.9% to 44.6%, but Karen Anderson in 1982 characterized their experience as "last hired, first fired." [129] At the end of the war, most of the munitions-making jobs ended.

  9. Women in the workforce - Wikipedia

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    Furthermore, women as a whole tend to be less assertive and confrontational. One of the factors contributing to the higher proportion of raises going to men is the simple fact that men tend to ask for raises more often than women, and are more aggressive when doing so. [74] Women, and men, are socialized at young ages into these roles.