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According to the OECD the Netherlands and Norway worked the least hours per-year in 2010. Germany is also classed as quite low. They seem to indicate the US is much less overworked than I expected with the Koreans and Greeks really being the overworked ones.
What countries have the most "free time" (from work)?
Overworked and underpaid in the USA, lol.
I heard Spain and France rank pretty high. Hours worked per day? Days worked per week? Vacation days per month? Ect? Any personal knowledge?
You are in the wrong field if you are overworked and underpaid in the USA.
You need to look for a public sector jobs AKA government jobs. You are only required 35 hours per week. Anything extra is OT. If you can finish 35 hours in 4 days, then you get a 3 days weekend.
According to the OECD the Netherlands and Norway worked the least hours per-year in 2010. Germany is also classed as quite low. They seem to indicate the US is much less overworked than I expected with the Koreans and Greeks really being the overworked ones.
On the contrary, the US has a higher average than any Western country (West-Europe/Canada/Australia/NZ) and higher than the OECD average as well. I would say that counts as "overworked" and perhaps "underpaid" as well, considering the fact that the Norwegian and Dutch GDP per capita is similar to the USA's
Excluding (220 hours) overtime I am going to work around 1,525 hours this year. That includes four weeks paid vacation + 7 days of public holidays. I am going to transfer 10 vacation days to 2012.
On the contrary, the US has a higher average than any Western country (West-Europe/Canada/Australia/NZ) and higher than the OECD average as well. I would say that counts as "overworked" and perhaps "underpaid" as well, considering the fact that the Norwegian and Dutch GDP per capita is similar to the USA's
Yes, but I thought we'd become number 1 and above everyone. If that site is to be believed we've never been close to the Koreans, Chileans, or Greeks.
Now the ILO says in 1997 we were the most overworked nation, more than even Korea. However that was fourteen years ago.
Americans work longest hours among industrialized countries, Japanese second longest. Europeans work less Time, but register faster productivity gains New ILO statistical volume highlights labour trends worldwide (http://www.ilo.org/global/about-the-ilo/press-and-media-centre/news/lang--en/WCMS_071326 - broken link)
Although their 2001 report did place South Koreans as working more than Americans.
Not sure how the number of working hours is measured, but I can imagine that they don't take breaks into account. There are countries (I am not saying Greece is one of them because I don't know) where people work from, say, 8 am to 7 pm, but effectively they only work 8 hours because they take many breaks, lunch, coffee, siesta, you name it. So, while it seems that they work 11 hours a day, once you subtract the breaks it is closer to the standard 8-9 hrs.
In my experience, Europe and America have about the same number of productive working hours. Those hours are just spread across different length working days.
Um, the problem with Europe is that more and more people are sitting on their asses and expecting fewer and fewer people to subsidize them, and subsidize them more and more.
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