Philobiblon

I occasionally find myself biting my tongue when some English person excitedly tells me about their plans to emigrate to Australia. I think I should be pointing them all to this article:

More than 20 per cent of employees work 50 hours or more each week, and more than 30 per cent regularly work on weekends. When these measures of long work hours and weekend work are combined, Australia ranks as the most work-intense high income country. About 2 million people now lose at least six hours of family time to work on Sunday, and those hours are not fully compensated for during the week.

There’s very little “throw another shrimp on the barbie” going on…