Each week of last year, the average nonagricultural U.S. worker toiled for exactly 35 hr. 36 min. Because of that effort, America can now claim title to a dubious superlative: world's shortest work week.
That distinction was bestowed last week by the International Labor Organization in its latest study of global work patterns. The news will be cheering to those patriotic dawdlers, clock watchers and absentees who have selflessly dedicated themselves to making the U.S. No. 1. No longer must Americans play second time clock to the once lackadaisical Belgians; those benighted strivers had the cheek last year to add half an...
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