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Mexico—the least productive of the 38 countries listed in 2015 data from the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD)—has the world’s longest average work week at 41.2 hours (including full-time and part-time workers).
It just show that hard work and long hours so praised in the USA doesn’t necessarily result in increased productivity. (Luxembourg, the most productive country, has an average workweek of just 29 hours. Defying stereotypes, the French with their extremely generous vacation policies and reputation for taking time to enjoy life are actually more productive per hour worked than Americans.)
Next comes Russia, S. Korea, Chile, Hungary, and former Russian republics on the Baltic Sea.
BTW: according to Expert Market's data, Japanese workers are the most productive of all the Asian nations surveyed.
Mexico—the least productive of the 38 countries listed in 2015 data from the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD)—has the world’s longest average work week at 41.2 hours (including full-time and part-time workers).
It just show that hard work and long hours so praised in the USA doesn’t necessarily result in increased productivity. (Luxembourg, the most productive country, has an average workweek of just 29 hours. Defying stereotypes, the French with their extremely generous vacation policies and reputation for taking time to enjoy life are actually more productive per hour worked than Americans.)
Next comes Russia, S. Korea, Chile, Hungary, and former Russian republics on the Baltic Sea.
BTW: according to Expert Market's data, Japanese workers are the most productive of all the Asian nations surveyed.
Joint alert!!! Japan has some of the most capable and productive workers...Are you smoking a joint?
Japanese work long hours but sleep in the office and pretend to work for most hours, that's why their innovation economy has stagnated along with wages and inflation.
The work hours in Japan is cultural, there is nothing to do with productivity. They have a workaholic culture. The japanese companies regard highly the professionals spending hours and hours in the workplace.
Japanese work long hours but sleep in the office and pretend to work for most hours, that's why their innovation economy has stagnated along with wages and inflation.
Considering Japan has the highest % of people sleeping in public transport i doubt they sleep in the office too.
LOL @Japan. Little economic benefit? Japan has among the highest per capita income in the world. Also I do not see any relation between labor productivity and debt of a country. According to that logic, the countries with the highest debt, must have low productivity?
From my experience, the labor productivity is perceived differently in different countries/continents. While in Asia often the face-time counts (don't go home earlier than your boss, whose children are probably already adult so he is bored in the evening anyways, while you are waiting to get home to your family but yet still have to stay until like 10pm), Europeans usually rather care about what kind of work has to be done, regardless if you finish it in 5 hours or 10 hours. I am not a big fan of being paid by hour anyways, my company does not even have a time management system, except for time being billed on projects to customers, but in some jobs that require office or attendance hours that may be necessary.
Also the technological and industrial background of a country is important. A worker from a poor country can work as hard as he wants, without the technological measures and without an industry and price level of developed countries his labor productivity in $ will always be low, while an American fat bloke (Copyright by Top gear) in any union assembly plant can be lazy as hell and still will be counted as productive.
Mexico—the least productive of the 38 countries listed in 2015 data from the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD)—has the world’s longest average work week at 41.2 hours (including full-time and part-time workers).
It just show that hard work and long hours so praised in the USA doesn’t necessarily result in increased productivity. (Luxembourg, the most productive country, has an average workweek of just 29 hours. Defying stereotypes, the French with their extremely generous vacation policies and reputation for taking time to enjoy life are actually more productive per hour worked than Americans.)
Next comes Russia, S. Korea, Chile, Hungary, and former Russian republics on the Baltic Sea.
BTW: according to Expert Market's data, Japanese workers are the most productive of all the Asian nations surveyed.
There are 195 countries. Mexico is ranked 35th most productive country in the world. Your post is deceiving, is the least productive amongst the group of most productive countries. All the countries not mention in the report you posted are way lazier and less productive than Mexico.
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