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Are Americans Workaholics?

By SiliconIndia   |   Wednesday, 08 February 2012, 04:00 Hrs   |    5 Comments
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Bangalore: Have you ever guessed which country’s employees work more? Well, the answer is the United States. This is not so surprising because the Americans are considered as some of the productive people in the world. In a recent information provided by the "Business Insurance quotes" on ‘Workaholism’ in the United States has mentioned that the Americans work up to 1,778 hours per year. Around 10 million Americans work more than 60 hours a week.  But this can also be increased in the future because the Americans can think of competing with Mexico, as this country’s employees are working more hours annually when compared with the United States employees with 1,866 hours on a yearly basis.



According to a report by YouTern Alpha Website, Bryce Christiansen, the Marketing Coordinator for the Balanced WorkLife Company is of the opinion that even though the list includes countries like Brazil, Russia, India, China, the Americans would have overtaken them as well.



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1: can you really compare the work hours between different countries? Australians work hours would go significantly up because of Indian drivers spending 18*7 although a native works for 4 days a week :-)
In India a rikshaw-puller works 12-14 hours without a leave. Even in offices, security guards are generally on extended duty. We always hear stories of how police and army personals are over-worked.
I wonder Japan, notoriously famous for workaholism, is not in the list.
Posted by:workaholic - 13 Feb, 2012
2: I Agree with My dear, Many peoples work more then 16 hours in india and we have to consider that in India we still don't 5 day's week, its 6 days. Even some weeks goes by working on sundays for the same amount of time. I would say i have worked and seen also many people working for more then 120 hour/week in India.

I have just one question to ask. If they are so workaholic Can they work constant 3 days with just food and small nap brake, making it 60 hours per 3 day?
Posted by:Tushar - 09 Feb, 2012
3: This also depends on population vs employment ration of the country. 60 hrs/week is not so much most of the peoples are working more than 16 hrs a day in India.
Posted by:My dear - 09 Feb, 2012
4: When everything goes smooth, no one become workaholic. The system reverses.....
Posted by:Sridhar - 08 Feb, 2012
5: May be that is the reason why they top in every field.
Posted by:hasini - 08 Feb, 2012
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