"Midwest Work Ethic" (?) Was Factor in Perficient Moving HQ from Texas to St. Louis
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The Midwest work ethic. We like the sound of that. But is it real?
The federal Bureau of Labor Statistics does keep data on how many hours people work relative to leisure and other activities. But those data aren't broken out state-by-state. or region-by-region.
So Daily RFT performed a different but equally rigorous scientific study: how many mentions of the following phrases appear in major U.S. newspapers, according to the Nexis database?
- West Coast work ethic: 5
- East Coast work ethic: 4
- Southern Work ethic: 11
- Midwest work ethic: 81
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