And You Thought Americans were Hardworking?
Reading this bicker about Europeans taking 2 hr lunches and Americans working hard is pretty funny to me.
I don’t mean to disparage the working habits of my American friends but if you come to Asia I think it can generally be agreed that Asians work way harder.
But then there will also be debates about quality of life. So I shall not go into too much detail.
Americans take lots of summer breaks too. And being in temperate areas the Winter months are pretty useless because the sun sets at like 4pm so people go home early.
In Singapore, being always Summer, people work long hours throughout the year.
But I’ve also learnt one thing: It’s not about how hard you work because obviously America does have a significantly greater achievement in Science and Technology.
To each its own!
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I’ve worked in America, Japan, UK and now Singapore.
In my experience Americans work harder than Singaporeans. Singaporeans seems to be much happier to take sick days at short notice, but my view is rather closeted as I’ve only worked in one company in Singapore.
Japanese seem to work harder than Americans, often staying extremely late. Though in the UK I once worked from 8am to 8am. My industry is probably one of the worse when it’s comes to hours worked.
Everyone seems to think their own country is the hardest working
http://www.metro.co.uk/news/article.html?in_article_id=52256&in_page_id=34
yeah the sick leave thing is so prevalent
but that’s because people just dont really care about the company
i think a little bit rests on not having enough stock options being given out as incentive compensation