Well, Orwell says, hotels are just needless luxuries, so if people stopped going to them, there would be less hard work to do.
It could be argued that with a tiny bit of aptitude, science is actually less hard work than arts subjects because you don't have to read so many long books.
The trend seems to have passed by the 2,129 recently married couples who were questioned in a survey published this week, which revealed that 47 per cent of them would prefer to have a son first, with most of the respondents saying it was because boys are "less hard work".
Maybe just an hour or so extra sleep can instantly make getting up for school in the morning a lot less hard work.
They understandably fear hurting their careers by being "out of sight, out of mind" and getting stigmatised as less dedicated and hard working.
OK, to be fair, an Obama second term would be a lot less hard on working Americans than, say, the Texasification of America that would take place under Rick Perry.
The counterintuitive result is that the more strictly we are controlled, the less hard we work.
And despite the fact that women are the sole or primary breadwinner in 40percentt of U.S. households with children, it's assumed they'll prioritize family over work and, as a result, become less reliable and less hard-working.
"But the reality is I don't actually agree they're less hard-working," he said.
Catalans' age-old complaint that their taxes support less hard-working areas of Spain has become louder as they suffer at home.
After all, studies find that employers tend to view overweight workers as less capable, less hard-working and lacking in self-control.
