Steve inadvertently brings up a good point and one thats been on my mind for the past decade or so.
The United States GDP has actually been decreasing relative to other nations. All the while, the number of hours worked has been increasing.
Frequently, as I watched this happen - read about it on the internet in books or magazines - I sat at my desk in my employers office building. I could have been home doing this and it would have made no difference. My job is such that I am very, very busy at certain times during the month, and usually very slow at others. On average, I probably really worked about 40 hours but spent a fair bit more time stuck at my desk being non-productive for them or me. It doesn't make sense. I could have done so much more had I been allowed to truly manage my own schedule.
I think this is part of our problem. We still insist on adhering to the 8-5, 40 hr (but really 50 hr) work week, and two weeks vacation. This doesn't fit our globalizing economy where our counterparts may be in Australia or India or Hong Kong, working different hours in a different time zone and different standards.
We're waistful! And it's ludicrous!

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...the government...is caving in...with their specious arguments couched in the...language of civil rights law, and that the churches ... likewise crumbling to...rhetoric which is nothing but heretical sophistry -- ~F Phelps
Platitudes like the one you offer are no different - and no less incorrect - than the jackass part-time Christian who says, "I'm going to heaven because I'm nice to people." It so misses the point.~Impugn