Comment by LatteLazy

In case people wonder, the pre covid employment figure was around 60% for working age people in the USA.

https://tradingeconomics.com/united-states/employment-rate#:....

I bring this up every time people discuss working week length, productivity etc. We have massively reduced the percentage of people working. But instead of giving everyone 2 extra days off, we gave 40% of people all the days off and made the rest work harder...