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spiral78
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 Posted: Wed Apr 13, 2011 2:57 pm Post subject: Working Hard - and Hardly Working |
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http://business.blogs.cnn.com/2011/04/13/what-country-works-the-most-each-day/?hpt=C2
Congrats, hardworking Mexicans!
I wonder how this affects working conditions for EFL teachers? Are expectations for acceptable working hours higher for teachers in the countries where the natives work more?
Maybe we'd all prefer to work in Belgium, but I can vouch that there is little EFL work there, and it's poorly paid.  |
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spiral78
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What country works the most each day?
Posted by:
CNN.com business producer, Kevin Voigt
(CNN) - Who works the most minutes each day at home and work?
Japan may be the first to spring to mind, with its legendary work ethic, but according to the latest study by the Organization of Economic Co-operation and Development, Japan comes in second place with an average of 540 minutes, or nine hours, spent doing paid work and chores such as shopping and cooking.
So what nation is the hardest working in the world? Mexico, according to the OECD.
As the chart above shows breaking down daily minutes of work, Mexicans spend 594 minutes, or 9.9 hours, doing paid or unpaid work each day.
The nation that works the least, according to the survey of 29 economies, is Belgium with a total of 427 minutes (7.1 hours) of work each day.
The OECD average was 277 minutes (4.6 hours) of paid work, and 207 minutes (3.45 hours) of unpaid work each day.
How much some other major economies worked: China (8.4 hours of paid and unpaid work), The U.S. (8.3 hours), India (8.1 hours), Australia (8 hours), the UK (7.8 hours), France (7.5 hours) and Germany (7.4 hours).
In total minutes of paid work only, Japan worked the most with 6.3 hours on average each day. Denmark worked the least paid time (3.75 hours).
Mexico had the highest average of unpaid work (4.2 hours) and Korea the least (1.3 hours).
French spent the most unpaid time doing shopping each day (32 minutes) while Koreans did the least (13 minutes). |
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Isla Guapa
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| Posted: Wed Apr 13, 2011 3:40 pm Post subject: |
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| If you read the article carefully, you�ll find that it's the unpaid work in Mexico that makes it number one. The unpaid work turns out to be taking care of the family, mostly cooking, and guess who does most of it? Surely not the men of the family! |
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Guy Courchesne
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| Posted: Wed Apr 13, 2011 3:46 pm Post subject: |
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| Was just going to point that out too Isla...good spot. Dixie and I were reading and commenting on this article last night. Considering Mexican cooking habits, no surprise on the high amount of time spent there. |
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spiral78
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| Posted: Wed Apr 13, 2011 4:04 pm Post subject: |
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Yes, I noticed the distinction between paid and unpaid. It's just a study of levels of industriousness, overall, not who's best at cleverly maximising the paid portion of his/her daily work. Though, yes, I can agree that there are some likely gender gaps!!
Belgians are notoriously pretty good cooks, too, so I think it's the remunerative portion of their days that's really low:-) |
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personis
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| There's always Denmark as well but with its arm and leg prices and stellar English, that's a road less traveled. |
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