75% – Percentage of workers worldwide who do not have a permanent job, according to the International Labor Organization. Global unemployment reached an estimated 201 million in 2014; most people work without a contract or are self-employed.
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“No dreams come true until you wake up and go to work.”
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“I have long been of the opinion that if work were such a splendid thing the rich would have kept more of it for themselves.” – Bruce Grocott
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The Japanese are working themselves to death. Labor activists have been trying to draw attention to the problem of karoshi, or death from overwork, for decades. Reliable statistics can’t be found, because it’s hard to prove causation in the case of someone who, say, worked 36 hours in a row several times in the same month and then died of […]
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“Find a job you like and you add five days to every week.” – H. Jackson Brown Jr.
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“The workaholic colonizes his own despair at the perceived emptiness of life by filling it in with work.” – Mark Kingwell
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“Your work is to discover your work and then with all your heart give yourself to it.” – Buddha
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