Which country works the longest hours?
Posted by staff / May 28, 2012
Clocking in long hours in the cubicle? What you consider long hours could feel like an easy week for workers in South Korea. In a recent study, the OECD compared the average number of working hours across 34 developed nations.
The figures come from the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), sometimes referred to as the rich countries’ club, which gathers them from its 34 members. A global comparison of working hours is impossible because of the lack of comparable data.
Full story at BBC.
It should be noted that Americans have way more part-time workers and the norm for a white collar american is 2080 (40hrs/week)