Bird’s Eye: A quick look, (that’s all we have time for!) at signs of just how busy our lives are… or how busy we choose to make them. Maybe we should slow down in 2011? It’ll go on the list, which is already pretty long.

* The Student Life Today (thanks, Diana)

* The U.S. is the Most Overworked Nation in the World

The U.S. remains the only industrialized country in the world that has no legally mandated annual leave. In every country included except Canada and Japan (and the U.S., which averages 13 days/per year), workers get at least 20 paid vacation days.  In France and Finland, they get 30 – an entire month off, paid, every year.

* Metropolis short youtube video