Why Aren’t Americans Working as Hard as They Used to?

Published on April 16, 2026

I came across a statistic the other day that goes against the intuition of practically everyone in the US who has a job: Americans are working less than they did in the 1950s and ’60s. How is this possible, when we all feel chained to our desks or our phones?

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