{"id":50215,"date":"2025-08-07T11:03:13","date_gmt":"2025-08-07T11:03:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/50215\/"},"modified":"2025-08-07T11:03:13","modified_gmt":"2025-08-07T11:03:13","slug":"australians-are-working-longer-not-smarter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/50215\/","title":{"rendered":"Australians are working longer, not smarter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Millie Muroi from The SMH <a href=\"https:\/\/www.smh.com.au\/national\/australians-are-working-more-hours-and-it-might-be-hurting-our-living-standards-20250728-p5mier.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">noted<\/a> that Australians are working more hours to compensate for declining productivity.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGiven productivity\u2014the amount of goods and services produced for a given level of resources, including hours worked\u2014has stagnated over the past decade, Australians may be compensating by putting in more legwork\u201d, she wrote.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAccording to the OECD, Australians worked an average of 1645 hours in 2023, or just under 32 hours a week\u2014more than the 26 hours a week worked by Germans and the 31 hours worked in Japan\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Millie Muroi from The SMH noted that Australians are working more hours to compensate for declining productivity. \u201cGiven&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":50216,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[64,63,99,164],"class_list":["post-50215","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-business","tag-economy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50215","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50215"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50215\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50216"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}