Meaning: Exhausted. Synonyms: jaded; wearied. Context example: my father's words had left me jaded and depressed. Similar: tired (depleted of strength or energy)
Text Size. One of the many startling results in Friday's unemployment report for June was how few American adults are currently employed. Even though the unemployment rate is technically 9.2%, the employment-population ratio fell to 58.2%, matching its recession low. But it might help to put this number into perspective: just how bad is it?
Working (by Employed Persons) in 2016 --On the days they worked, 83 percent of employed persons did some or all of their work at their workplace and 22 percent did some or all of their work at home. Employed persons spent more time working at the workplace than at home--7.9 hours, compared with 3.1 hours. (See table 6.) --The share of workers doing some or all of their work at home grew from 19 percent in 2003--the first year the ATUS was conducted--to 22 percent in 2016.