If you check the European statistics, you'll find that most countries pretty much have the same working hours per week, with the UK being a notable exception (b

If you check the European statistics, you'll find that most countries pretty much have the same working hours per week, with the UK being a notable exception (but only by one or two hours, we're not talking US/Korean levels). Edit: Checked my source again, and it seems that hours in the UK are going down, and anyways, the big "leader" is Iceland. Although, given their population size, those statistics might be skewed by one guy who's really pulling some overtime. http://epp.eurostat.ec.europa.eu/tgm/table.do?tab=table&init=1&language=en&pcode=tps00071&plugin=0 http://epp.eurostat.ec.europa.eu/tgm/table.do?tab=table&init...