Is the US the most workaholic country ever

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I worked for a company that closed only on Christmas Day. People brought their children to work (because schools were closed all week), there were a few parties--but little got done. It was very performative, and cruel, I think.
In Japan, there are school.events on weekends. Attendance is expected, by students and parents.

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Anonymous wrote:I’m a day away from Christmas Eve and we are on calls dawn to dusk. Is everybody’s work life like this?

Customer opened a support ticket yesterday. I did some preliminary debugging, but I suspect I will need to do some more today. This customer always opens a ticket before every major holiday. No tickets in the past three weeks.

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Anonymous wrote: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.

+ 1. Yes, the constant availability is a big mental drain and it worms itself into my family time. Little WLB.

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Anonymous wrote:I’m a day away from Christmas Eve and we are on calls dawn to dusk. Is everybody’s work life like this?

Curious, what do you do OP? I think it depends on your job. I know that Financial sector still have generous telework policy. I recently called Schwab brokerage and the rep said that he was teleworking, like most of his team. He said that the work-life balance is great.

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China, India and Japan are worse than US. They don;t have 2 day weekends. Only Sundays are off

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What’s the point of this kind of life though? Work till you drop and then regret the life you never got to live? Of what use is the success and wealth you never got to enjoy? I’d rather live in Europe where there’s more work life balance.

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Donald Trump is the most workaholic president this country has ever had. That’s why lazy federal employees fear him.

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DC will end up earning over $40k in overtime this year. Work smarter not harder.

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The average hours worked is higher in the U.S. than in Japan.

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Anonymous wrote:Donald Trump is the most workaholic president this country has ever had. That’s why lazy federal employees fear him.

Presidential work is not truthing about scum and radical leftists.

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Anonymous wrote:Donald Trump is the most workaholic president this country has ever had. That’s why lazy federal employees fear him.

Tweeting whilst sitting on the toilet is not what we traditionally call work.

[Anonymous]

It's worse than ever. I'm working through Christmas and New Year's, and the weekends. And my company is claiming they are having to slim down because they are losing work. It feels like it is all for nothing. I'm definitely at a breaking point.

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My Dad worked NICU shifts so he had to work on Christmas. That's just how it is in some fields.

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Anonymous wrote:My Dad worked NICU shifts so he had to work on Christmas. That's just how it is in some fields.

Yes, in some fields. They get time off at other times though. Working 80 hours a week through Christmas isn't right.

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Anonymous wrote: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.

Plus the guy in the smaller city probably has a shorter (or at least more pleasant) commute.