With the recent three-day weekend (for most people), we wondered just where the U.S. ranks worldwide when it comes to the number of hours spent each week at work.
The answer: 12th overall, according to our friends at the Statistic Brain Research Institute.
Here are the Top 12 nations based on average number of hours worked each week:
- Korea: 42.1 hours
- Chile: 39.7 hours
- Russia: 38 hours
- Hungary: 37.7 hours
- Czech Republic: 37.4 hours
- Poland: 37.2 hours
- Estonia: 36.1 hours
- Turkey: 36 hours
- Mexico: 35.8 hours
- Slovak Republic: 34.3 hours
- Italy: 34.1 hours
- United States: 34.1 hours
This either means we are quite productive or we need to learn to take more vacations.
Source: statisticbrain.com/average-annual-hours-actually-worked-per-worker/