North Americans Desperately Overworked and Craving a Healthier Quality of Life: Porch Magazine Features an Interview With John de Graaf, Author of "Take Back Your Time: Fighting Overwork and Time Poverty in America"

Despite predictions in the 1960s that computers and technology would bring an increase in leisure time, the reverse has come true. Americans work more hours compared to any other country in the world exceeding Japan by 137 hours per year and Germany by 260 hours, or twelve and a half weeks per year. Porch magazine explores this issue with an in-depth interview with John de Graaf, author of Take Back Your Time: Fighting Overwork and Time Poverty in America in this months issue of Porch magazine.

VANCOUVER, BC (PRWEB) October 28, 2004 -- Despite predictions in the 1960s that computers and technology would bring an increase in leisure time, the reverse has come true. Americans work more hours compared to any other country in the world exceeding Japan by 137 hours per year and Germany by 260 hours, or twelve and a half weeks per year. Porch magazine explores this issue with an in-depth interview with John de Graaf, author of Take Back Your Time: Fighting Overwork and Time Poverty in America in this months issue of Porch magazine.

Frightening statistics such as the fact that Americans spend 40% less time with their children than they did in the 1960s; the average American spends seventy-two minutes of every day behind the wheel of a car; and the typical business executive loses sixty-eight hours a year to being put on hold, compelled de Graaf to act as national coordinator of Take Back Your Time, a major initiative to address issues of overwork, over scheduling and time urgency.

Much of our motivation to work longer and harder is that at the end of WWII, weve been driven by a desire to accumulate more material wealth," says de Graaf. Our pursuit of things is what is stealing our time. Weve now reached a point where the balance of our material pursuits and our ability to reflect on whats really important to us is tipped dangerously out of whack."

Porch is a magazine for people about people and where they live. With its emphasis on laughing, inspiring, and doing, Porch connects people to their communities. To read the complete interview with John de Graaf as well as other thought provoking articles including Spirit Killers, Stress and the Body and Coyote, Living with the Wild Coyote Spirit, pick up the November/December issue of Porch, available by subscription or throughout stores in North America including Chapters, Indigo, Whole Foods, Wild Oats and Capers.

Porch is a new magazine dedicated to showing how readers can do simple things to re-connect with themselves, friends and family, neighbors, and their communities. For more information, visit Porch online at www.porchmagazine.com.

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