For all the hoopla and high five’s for the lowering of the unemployment figures, the figures paint a distorted picture. Anecdotal

stories and manipulation of the employment figures paint a picture of continual shrinkage in the workforce.

Manipulation of the work week can be seen where high tech employees are glued to their jobs and are transported via the company bus to their home base in San Francisco in the dark of night with the glow of laptops working away both to and from their company campus or employees allowed to work no more than 30 hours a week so they will not qualify for benefits.  Both of these behaviors are signs that the work week has changed in America.  The relentless push to automate will continuously squeeze more work from fewer workers.

Employers will increasingly replace low-skilled workers with technology.  Even law clerks are being replaced by data software …