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There's only 38 countries on here, a large majority of which would be considered "Western." The only thing this is really useful for having first worlders lust
by tomatotomato37 8y ago
There's only 38 countries on here, a large majority of which would be considered "Western." The only thing this is really useful for having first worlders lust after other first world countries with single digit percent differences in work hours
Also don't forget a standard 40 work week over a year is 2080 hours, significantly higher than the average.
- isostatic 8y agoMost countries have at least 4 weeks holiday, so that would be 1920 hours. In the UK the standard week varies between 35 and 40 hours (9-5 with hour lunch, 9-5.30 with hour lunch, 9-5:30 with half hour lunch), and the 4 weeks is in addition to the 9ish bank holidays, so that's about 1700 hours, and sure enough 1681 is the magic number. Greece surprised me. They have 20% unemployment, meaning that if they spread the work evenly, rather than having 80 people working 2010 hours, they could have 95 working 1692 hours, same as Canada and Spain. The work is there in Greece, so why isn't it being shared more equally?
- kpil 8y agoMaybe a lot of agriculture and small business?
- whorleater 8y ago>There's only 38 countries on here It's from the OCED, which is literally a club of rich (mostly) first world countries.
- simongray 8y ago> Also don't forget a standard 40 work week over a year is 2080 hours, significantly higher than the average. Standard in the US, not standard everywhere.
- drcoopster 8y agoDon't forget there are typically 8-10 paid holidays (New Year, Memorial Day, Independence Day, Labor Day, Thanksgiving, Christmas) for full-time salaried employees in the US, plus whatever paid vacation they choose to use. Usually 2000 hours is a good number for 40 hrs/wk full time employment (without PTO).