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Friday, August 14, 2009

Map: Hours Per Week Working Around the World

South Korea and Greece (!?) appear to be the only true outliers...

http://www.billshrink.com/blog/working-around-the-world/

1 comment:

chibi said...

Greece’s top entry is surprising but so is Mexicans working longer hours than Japanese????? Need to go back to the OECD surveys to look at their methodology.

The OECD chart, with total employment, etc., gives you a slightly different picture than the map of average working hours per week. http://stats.oecd.org/Index.aspx?DatasetCode=LEVEL