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• peoplefromibiza 4y ago
  Average weekly working hours: 30.9 hours per week in 2011, it had dropped to 30.1 in 2021, only being below 30 in 2020 Across Sweden, only around 1% of employees work more than 50 hours a week, one of the lowest rates in the OECD, where 13% is the average. By law, Swedes are given 25 vacation days, while many large firms typically offer even more. Parents get 480 days of paid parental leave to split between them Joe Armstrong, Erlang creator, talked a lot about being able to work on Erlang while being in Sweden because as a parent he was allowed to work less hours a day and had plenty of free time.
  • marginalia_nu 4y ago
    I averages may be a bit quite deceiving since they're across industries. About 80% of office workers do a full 40 hour week. More than 40 is likewise very rare. A work-week is legally standardized up to at most 40 hours. Overtime is a thing, but demanding chronic overtime without good reason is a legal liability, where the boss responsible is held personally liable.
    • peoplefromibiza 4y ago
      > About 80% of office workers do a full 40 hour week. avearges are averages. The average hours worked per week in the U.S. was 38.7 hours as of 2021. Men worked an average of 40.5 hours per week so comparing a salary in US using hour rates, can lead to a very different result in Sweden.
      • marginalia_nu 4y ago
        Averages are not the same across different statistical distributions. In the case of working hours, the Swedish median, mode and mean are heavily divergent, since the distribution is truncated at 40 hours by the law and thus heavily skewed.
        • peoplefromibiza 4y ago
          > since the distribution is truncated at 40 hours by the law which makes it a maximum. Thanks for confirming that it makes no sense to compare hourly rates between Sweden and Seattle, where people could work 60 hours a week.