We have shorter vacations than any other industrial nation. The week long vacation is vanishing. Time share vacation properties have adapted to that. Time share properties used to be sold in units of a week. But since fewer families take vacations by the week, they now sell time share property in day units.
Vacations are now likely to be several long weekends.
Juliet Schor, a teacher at Harvard, in her book, The Overworked American , says that we work on average that s for everyone over 40 hours a week. I ll never know, that the serfs in Medieval Europe only worked 20 hours a week. She says that middle and upper management work 58 to 65 hours a week. Its a tough question. I ll tell you up front that I don t have the answer.