CroMex: New York is America's Hardest working City

    NEW YORK, NY, March 26, 2015 /24-7PressRelease/ -- New York City Comptroller Scott M. Stringer conducted a first-of-its-kind analysis of work place trends. The study found that full-time workers in New York City have longer workweeks than those in 29 other major US cities - when commuting times are taken into account. The study found that lower-wage workers often endure the most brutal commutes and the findings suggest a need for new workplace policies that help to balance work and family life. Comptroller Stringer revealed that New York is America's hardest working city and that New Yorkers are dedicated, ambitious and tough, but there needs to be some flexible work arrangements put in place to help those employees who get paid less but have to travel longer to get to work.

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The analysis also found that full-time workers in New York City spend slightly more time at work than workers in the next 29 largest cities and about two hours more commuting. This means the combined work and commuting workweeks of New York City workers averages over 49 hours - three to four hours longer than in some other large cities. CroMex believes that this proves New York City workers to have strong work-ethic and high determination but also means they may be some of the most tired and stressed workers in America. The firm believes that this means New York needs to do something to expand the transit networks and advance policies like flexible work arrangements and predictable scheduling.

The study also revealed that:

In almost all common occupations, full-time New York City workers have longer combined work-commuting weeks than their counterparts in other large cities. The longest working hours in New York City is among the finance sectors, who work for 53 hours per week, almost four more hours per week than their counterparts in other cities. Accountants, auditors, financial managers, cashiers, janitors and building cleaners also all have longer working weeks.

On average New York City's full-time workers earned about 16 percent more than workers did in other large cities in 2013. However, once commutes are factored in that wage plays out in dramatically different ways. Some higher-income groups were able to retain an effective wage premium of 15 percent, while others, such as cooks (8 percent) and waiters and waitresses (4 percent) did not benefit as much from their lengthy workweeks. The situation was in fact fully reversed at the lower end of the spectrum: Due to long commutes and lower pay, nursing and home health care aides earned an effective wage premium that was 11 percent less than their counterparts in other large cities, even before adjusting for the higher cost of living.

CroMex is an outsourced sales and marketing firm based in New York City. The firm specializes in a unique form of direct marketing that involves creating personalized campaigns that accurately represent their clients' brands. These campaigns are then taken directly to consumers via face-to-face marketing techniques that are used to build long-lasting and personal relationships between brand and consumer. This often leads to increased customer acquisition, brand awareness and brand loyalty for their clients.

CroMex offers flexible working opportunities to their force of hard-working, professional sales reps, in order to allow people to choose when they want to work and how much they want to work. This helps to boost morale as they feel in control of their own hours and also ensures that they get the most out of their working day.

CroMex is an outsourced sales and marketing firm based in New York. The firm specialises in personalised event marketing campaigns that offer valuable one-on-one connections to their customers.

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