Is the US the most workaholic country ever
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Anonymous
| I’m a day away from Christmas Eve and we are on calls dawn to dusk. Is everybody’s work life like this? |
Anonymous
| Japan is worse. |
Anonymous
| I think it’s worse in Japan but the US is definitely high up on the list. |
Anonymous
| China would consider US standards relaxing |
Anonymous
| no |
Anonymous
Christmas Eve is not a holiday, nor is the day before Christmas Eve |
Anonymous
| Eastern Europeans work a lot too. |
Anonymous
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996. This is a term used in Japan and China where the work week for career climbers is 9am to 9pm, 6 days a week, and this is baseline so those who are go-getters work more.
We don't have it the worst here in the U.S., but we are so far from the best that it hurts to think about sometimes. |
Anonymous
| I don’t like the expectation that salaried people be perpetually available. I think people don’t take enough time off. And of course, we hardly have any protections. So no - but it’s not great. |
Anonymous
| Most countries in Asia like China, Korea, Japan would disagree....I had colleagues in these countries and it was normal to be on 7 days a week. |
Anonymous
| The interesting thing is that the 30% of americans who work in the big cities -- yes, terrible hours. But for all the americans who work in the rest of the country, they seem to all still work 9-5. My clients in the midwest who work for big companies, the mid sized southern metro i currently live in (remote work). No one is working past 6pm. But my friends in DC, NY, SF are all working to 8pm every night. The people outside the big cities are probably earning less (on average) but it's not like they're paupers. Like, a lawyer making $250k in a mid sized metro area leaving his local firm at 6pm every night to live in his $1m huge new beautiful home.... that's not a bad life. |
Anonymous
| Japan. |
Anonymous
When my dh worked for a British company, they took off the last two weeks of the year. |
Anonymous
| No. Look at countries in Asia as others have noted above. Nonetheless, we're better than many European countries with respect to work ethic. |
Anonymous
| We're the middle of the spectrum. |