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By the stats, USA is the brutal one: https://data.oecd.org/chart/7kW3 https://data.oecd.org/chart/7kW3.
by _kb 3y ago
By the stats, USA is the brutal one: https://data.oecd.org/chart/7kW3 https://data.oecd.org/chart/7kW3.
- boringuser2 3y ago[flagged]
- sanxiyn 3y agoHighlighted countries in the chart is US and Japan and US is working more hours than Japan. Since TSMC is happy to build factories in Japan, it should be happy to build factories in US, working hours wise.
- boringuser2 3y ago[flagged]
- tonmoy 3y agohttps://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- altcognito 3y agoMake your point without name calling or being insulting.
- 1000100_1000101 3y agoWhile that does have Japan, the link lacks China and many other countries. Check out this list from Wikipedia[0] [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_average_annual_labor_hours https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_average_a...
- Yiin 3y agoCould be a case where US workers work those hours officially, but Japan workers work a lot on unpaid overtime in addition to those hours.
- immawizard 3y agoPer source: “ The data are intended for comparisons of trends over time; they are unsuitable for comparisons of the level of average annual hours of work for a given year, because of differences in their sources and method of calculation.” https://data.oecd.org/emp/hours-worked.htm https://data.oecd.org/emp/hours-worked.htm