Annual hours worked per engaged person in Europe and in Asia. (Sorry for different color scales.)

3 years ago by garfaagel to c/map_enthusiasts

Taken from here:

Some other countries if somebody is curious:

Brazil: 1708
Canada: 1689
Mexico: 2137
South Africa: 2191
USA: 1765

odium 61 points 3 years ago

Japan and South Korea seem low, but keep in mind that they have a huge issue of people being expected to work overtime without documenting it.

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WowSuchInternetz 21 points 3 years ago

There is a large part time worker population in Japan. If you remove part timers the average is around 2000 hours for 2019

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scytale 6 points 3 years ago

First thing I noticed as well. Unreported overtime I guess.

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StreetKid 3 points 3 years ago

In South Korea you are not allowed to work more than 52 hours a week. Generally, you work approximately 40 hours a week.

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clutch 3 points 3 years ago

40 is what you are allowed to report, and doesn't count compulsory participation in dinners and karaoke/noraebangs

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768 2 points 3 years ago

Are there strikes in KR regularly?

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lasagna 2 points 3 years ago

I don't think this accounts for unpaid hours and the not at all voluntary socials in some countries such as Japan.

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ciko22i3 38 points 3 years ago

Wtf is this? Why are the colors not the same number for both maps?

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WhiteRaven22 11 points 3 years ago

Probably to better highlight the local differences for both areas. The entire scale is significantly higher for the bottom map.

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ciko22i3 10 points 3 years ago

But the colours should reflect that. This map makes it seem like people in China and India work same hours like some European countries.

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DavidGarcia 4 points 3 years ago

yeah lol, they could have just picked new colors for the new bottom bins and it would be objectively better without tradeoffs

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CanadaPlus 28 points 3 years ago

Hardworking Germans and lazy Greeks, amiright!?!? /s

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redballooon 7 points 3 years ago

Same thing within Germany: the wealthier the person the less hours need to be spend working.

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Successful_Try543 1 point 3 years ago

Also, in Germany, it is still common for married women with children to work half-days only.

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gandalf_der_12te 15 points 3 years ago

I find it doesn't make sense to compare annual hours worked by employee.

Instead, only annual hours by person living in that region should be compared. Because otherwise, more part-time workers (meaning more working hours in total) dilute and decrease the average.

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absurdAuroch 5 points 3 years ago

While that statistic would also be interesting, that would be dominated by completely different factors: pensioners, female employment, duration of education

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AI_toothbrush 12 points 3 years ago

Even if these numbers are correct they dont tell the whole story. Im moving from hungary to sweden and the stress and amountof work people do is a fraction of whats in hungary.

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768 2 points 3 years ago

I wonder how work 'intensity' could be measured. Maybe intensity is only measurable through indirect means like prevalence of overworking-related diseases or a calculated number considering annual working hours and productivity, adjusting GDP per capita for relative productivity...

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telllos 10 points 3 years ago

If you work with Danish people, good luck catching anyone after 3pm.

Good for them

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boredtortoise 8 points 3 years ago

Denmark doing it right

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jordanlund 7 points 3 years ago

40 hours a week x 50 weeks a year is 2,000 then whatever holidays on top of that. I can see 1765 being right for the US.

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Banda 8 points 3 years ago

Seems low to me. There are 12 federally recognized holidays. So 2 weeks vacation plus 2 weeks and 2 days of holidays is still about 1900 hours. That’s if you work zero hours over overtime too.

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neblem 2 points 3 years ago

At least more salaried workers will be paid overtime with the new rules thus week in the US.

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Pyr_Pressure 6 points 3 years ago

I don't like that the colour scales are different ranges between the maps. Makes it look like China works less hours than Greece unless you look closely enough.

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odium 6 points 3 years ago

Interesting that Russia went from one of the highest in Europe to one of the lowest in Asia.

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CookieJarObserver 4 points 3 years ago

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redballooon 1 point 3 years ago

Or we have a lot part time workers. That map doesn’t tell overly much.

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