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

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

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

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

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

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    Sorry not buying it. All of the European top countries are pulling these numbers out of their asses.

    Edit: misunderstanding, I mean Russia, Poland and Creek.