In today's society, people always have to work hard to support their own life or their family. Everyone in the world works, working hard is a good thing. But is working too much a good thing? This problem seems happen in America in a worth considering way when America is noticed as the most overworked developed Nation in the world. Americans work too many hours in comparison to their peers around the world. Why they have to work that much? Do they think they work too much? Or just because they can't find anything more interesting than working? Do Americans work too much because they want to or because they have to? With much speculation, this topic has become a very intriguing argument. And in my opinion, I think the American work too hard and spend too much time on their work.
The U.S is the only country in the Americas without a national paid parental leave benefit. It means an American resident or citizen adult have to work harder and more time to pay their bills themselves . According to the Center for American Progress, the average is over 12 weeks of paid leave anywhere other than Europe and over 20 weeks in Europe. American claim that even though they spend so much time on their job but they still sometimes can't afford for their life. As this subject continues, the Americans find that it's a waste spending time on any activities than working and earning money. In "Overworked Americans Leave Half Billion Vacation Days Unused." Author Mark Johanson states that to most of Americans treat vacations as a luxury rather than a human right. That's one of thousands reasons they give out to explain why Americans prefer earning to spending.
Americans can work anytime, anywhere, with the help from many high technique devices, they see every second is a buck. Author Juliet Schor, who wrote the book " The Overworked American" in 1992, concluded that in 1990 Americans worked an average of nearly one month more per year than in 1970.