Nearly half of americans bring work home

[Sherman A1]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/20100114/sc_livescience/halfofamericansbringworkhome

Nearly half of U.S. adults bring their work home and many say work interferes with family life, a new survey finds.
The survey of 1,800 American workers finds work interferes with family, social or leisure life at least sometimes for almost 50 percent of the participants.
The worst at this are professionals, the rich, and the highly educated.

[KittyWampus]

1. I can still see my Dad correcting papers and my Mom getting the kids' craft project organized

for the next day.

Plus, the daily planning at beginning of the year.

And staying late for kids who acted up.

[cbdo2007]

2. Wow....work "interferes" "at least sometimes" for "50% of people".

Great, so 50% of people had to work an extra 30 minutes some day last year because they're boss needed them to get something done while they were surfing the internet all day. This study could go so many ways.

[KittyWampus]

4. what percent of our population are teachers? Cause I can guarantee they put in 1 extra hour daily

at least.

[11 Bravo]

7. My wife and I are both teachers. Just one extra hour per day would seem like a vacation.

[cbdo2007]

10. That's what I'm saying.....it would have been helpful for them to break this down

a little more for us. I was following along pretty well with the 50% number until I got to the "sometimes" before it. Then that tainted the whole thing.

[Fleshdancer]

8. OR maybe companies forced the same amount of work on less employees

Look at the unemployement rate.

[Sherman A1]

12. That is how I read it, but the others posting do

have their points.

[jobycom]

3. I do. Then again, I bring home to my work, as evidence by me posting here now.

If I actually worked at work, I'd probably bring less home. :)

[blueamy66]

5. I get paid OT to bring work home.

I like it.

[stray cat]

6. IF you work 60-80 hours a week its nice to do some of it from the comform of home

[anarch]

9. work definitely interferes with my leisure time

in that if I had my way, I wouldn't work at all, ever, and pretty much 100% of my time would be leisure time.

but yeah, I do work at home sometimes...actually get more done, and faster, when I do that

[Mugweed]

11. I work on my days off.

I get every other Friday off. Not that it's a perk...it's a 10% cut in pay because I only get paid for 32 hours that week (this on top of a previous 10% cut in salary). It doesn't matter that I'm salaried and only get paid for 40 hours a week even if I worked 70. The pay scale doesn't work that way. You get paid less if you work less than 40 hours, but not paid more if you work more than 40 hours. Anyway, I still have to take care of business on those Fridays becuase I'm the department manager, usually through connecting to the company network from home and having my work cell phone with me. I end up working a few hours each "day off" no matter what...not that I'm paid for them. I'm supposed to be happy I have a job, right?

[Deep13]

13. This in a country that already works longer hours than any...

...other industrial nation, except maybe Japan.

We work to support the ultra rich. What do we have to show for it? Inadequate healthcare, a second rate edication system and ads that interrupt our TV shows. We are a bunch of idiots.

[Bonhomme Richard]

14. Not only do people in this country vote against they're own interest..

but they work against they're own interest too. It never ceases to amaze me.