Working hours worldwide

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Thu, 2005-10-06 00:24 | mine

Another round of statistics after The real reasons you're working so hard... posted earlier:



CountryHours/YearHours/Week
South Korea3,38073.5
USA1,82539.7
Japan1,78938.9
Assuming 46 work weeks per year, a crude approximation of 6 weeks of public holidays and annual leave in a year (52 weeks) per corporate slave.

Unfortunately, no official statistics for Hong Kong yet, but I would say 55 hours work week in general as a local resident.

So, don't envy - success comes with a price.

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Wed, 2005-11-09 09:54 | UFO

Other sources say US working hours per year have increased in the last ten years to over 2000.

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