ask if it’s ok first

It's extremely useful to know how you value your own time. If you can figure out how much money each extra hour is worth to you, it'll help you make smarter decisions about many subjects, including:

Whether to take on additional part-time work, and at what rate.
Whether you should try to scale down your hours at your current job.
How long you should wait in line for a free item.
Whether taking a cab is worth the extra cost.
Whether it's worth it to hire a personal assistant, a laundry service, or other help.

• Have you become cynical or critical at work?
• Do you drag yourself to work and have trouble getting started?
• Have you become irritable or impatient with co-workers, customers or clients?
• Do you lack the energy to be consistently productive?
• Do you find it hard to concentrate?
• Do you lack satisfaction from your achievements?
• Do you feel disillusioned about your job?
• Are you using food, drugs or alcohol to feel better or to simply not feel?
• Have your sleep habits changed?
• Are you troubled by unexplained headaches, stomach or bowel problems, or other physical complaints?

Reducing hours without reducing pay would reignite an essential but long-forgotten moral project: making American life less about work.

Work-from-home = more work.

Long hours = more than 10 hours on at least 50 days per year.

People living in Cairo work the most number of hours in the world! Follow the link to the UBS site and download the PDF: lots of data. You will find that despite the greatest number of hours, this really buys us nothing. The data was collected via questionnaires administered to people from 14 different professions. The questions is: do people in Cairo report a higher number of working hours or is it true we work more than anyone else?