Overworked? Underpaid? Join the Club: The Middle Class
Monday, March 1st, 2010Overworked? Underpaid? Join the Club: The Middle Class
This week, a money-themed CBS Sunday Morning featured Cary, North Carolina’s SAS, a business software company–featuring subsidized on-site daycare, gyms, and health care–as an example of a corporate aberration in the these tough economic times. As CBS reporter Jim Axelrod pointed out in his cover story “The Great American Paycheck Squeeze,” the reality is, “for more and more Americans in these recessionary times, SAS might as well be Disney World. The fact is, most workers feel overworked, under-appreciated and–most of all–under-paid.”
What’s your work experience in this decade of decline? Overworked? Underpaid? Or just happy to be here?…