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number of hours they work. Therefore, it is more profitable for employers to work their existing employees harder. 7 For all that employees plain about long hours, they, too, have reasons not to trade money for leisure. 39。d be better off spreading around the work,39。 nature: increased production has been almost entirely decoupled from employment. Some firms are even down sizing as their profits climb. 39。 控制好時間,先易后難 I. READING PASSAGE A Workaholic Economy 1 FOR THE first century or so of the industrial revolution, increased productivity led to decreases in working hours. Employees who had been putting in 12hour days, six days a week, found their time on the job shrinking to 10 hours daily, then, finally to eight hours, five days a week. Only a generation ago social planners worried about what people would do with all this newfound free time. In the US, at least, it seems they need not have bothered. 2 Although the output per hour of work has more than doubled since 1945,leisure seems reserved largely for the unemployed and underemployed. Those who work fulltime spend as much time on the 中國最大的管理資源中心 (大量免費資源共享 ) 第 2 頁 共 9 頁 job as they did at the end of World War II. In fact, working hours have increased noticeably since 1970— perhaps because real wages have sta