Sunday, September 30, 2007

Average Work Week

The standard US 40-hour work week doesn't apply to all countries. After living in Europe I know that 30-hour work weeks are very common in many of the western countries. However, there are some countries where the standard worker puts in more hours than the average American per week. I know wikipedia is not usually considered a trusted source, however, I found this bar graph extremely interesting. Workers in South Korea work by far the most amount of hours per year out of any other country in the world--and 34% percent more than the average American. I can't imagine how South Koreans juggle what little free time they have.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Working_time

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