>>>>This is a compelling discovery.
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>>>>If you get 7.5 hours sleep on a work night, you feel pretty good the next morning, without needing six tons of coffee and five-hour energy drinks.
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>>>>Who knew????
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>>>The subject of sleep disorder has been getting a lot of press coverage lately. For various reasons most of us don't get the sleep we need. Part of the reason in the U.S. has experienced the change from an agrarian society to an industrial one. Especially before electricity, most Americans lived on farms and woke up and went to sleep early. Now most of us live in an 8 to 5 or 9 to 5 world. That is not necessarily natural.
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>>Don't think I posted the link here before, but I read a really interesting article a few weeks back about the value of a 40-hour work week (not 50 or 60 or 70) both to employer and employee. Here we go: http://www.salon.com/2012/03/14/bring_back_the_40_hour_work_week/
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>>Tamar
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>what's legal and illegal work hours off week at USA?

I'm not exactly sure, but here's what I can find. For people over 16 paid hourly, there's no limit on the number of hours, but after 40 hours in a week, employers have to pay overtime wages. It's actually more complicated than just being paid hourly. Some jobs are covered by this law, others are not.

Pretty sure that for salaried people, there's no law on this.

US labor laws are very weak. It's part of this whole "pull yourself up by your own bootstraps" culture.

Tamar