Today is Take Back Your Time day, a movement against overwork and over-scheduling. Americans work harder and longer than ever and it threatens the quality of our lives. Some depressing facts:

• We\’re putting in longer hours on the job now than we did in the 1950s, despite promises of a coming age of leisure before the year 2000.
• In fact, we\’re working more than medieval peasants did, and more than the citizens of any other industrial country.
• Mandatory overtime is at near record levels, in spite of a recession.
• On average, we work nearly nine full weeks (350 hours) LONGER per year than our peers in Western Europe do.
• Working Americans average a little over two weeks of vacation per year, while Europeans average five to six weeks.

[ From Slashdot ]