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Germans are also famous for how hard they work, working a grueling 1350 hours per year, compared to freeloading lazy Greeks, who merely work 2000.
by torginus 11mo ago
Germans are also famous for how hard they work, working a grueling 1350 hours per year, compared to freeloading lazy Greeks, who merely work 2000.
- nsoqm 11mo agoIt’s about productivity, not about the raw amount of hours.
- torginus 11mo agoI remember on reddit this was pointed under some article once, and there was a consensus about how West Europeans are just more productive. Then 2 weeks later there was an article about how much money do Americans make per hours worked, and everyone was falling over each other pointing out how flawed the methodology was.
- Workaccount2 11mo agoGermany has a stagnant economy, on the edge of shrinking. It's projected to only have 0.2% growth this year.
- nightshift1 11mo agoThat's not even 26h /week. All this stat show is that there are probably more jobs in Germany. Need more data to draw any conclusions.
- torginus 11mo agoNot according to eurostat: https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics-explained/index.php?title=Actual_and_usual_hours_of_work https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics-explained/index.php... https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics-explained/index.php?title=EU_labour_market_-_quarterly_statistics https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics-explained/index.php... The theory that Greeks work more hours because less of them work in total doesn't line up with the numbers. But if we pick Poles instead of Greeks, they have a similar level of employment to Germany while working just as many hours as the Greeks
- nightshift1 11mo agothanks. very interesting links. overall it seems the job market in europe keeps improving.