Numbers released from the Labor Department?s Annual Time Use Survey show that Americans continue to increase their hours worked. Americans worked 7.8 hours a day in 2014, which is .2 more hours than in 2013. Women worked less than men with 7.27 hours a day on average, compared to 8.12 hours a day for men.
See "As if you didn?t know, Americans are working longer hours", Corilyn Shropshire, Chicago Tribune, June 28, 2015