The Real Reasons You're Working So Hard...

[via Business Week] The article is about how well educated people become the slaves of their email and a lot of communication demands without purpose rather than everyone benefiting from automation and information revolution that boosted productivity by 70%.

"And the long-hour marathons aren't a result of demanding corporations exploiting the powerless. Most of the groggy-eyed are the best-educated and best-paid -- college grads whose real wages have risen by more than 30% since the 1980s. That's a change from 25 years ago, when it was the lowest-wage workers who were most likely to put in 50 hours or more a week, according to new research by Peter Kuhn of the University of California at Santa Barbara and Fernando A. Lozano of Pomona College."