{"id":1588,"date":"2008-05-23T14:45:54","date_gmt":"2008-05-23T19:45:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2008\/05\/the-hardest-working-country\/"},"modified":"2008-05-23T14:43:06","modified_gmt":"2008-05-23T19:43:06","slug":"the-hardest-working-country","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2008\/05\/the-hardest-working-country\/","title":{"rendered":"The Hardest Working Country"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>South Korea.\u00a0 At least according to some survey mentioned in <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/leadership\/2008\/05\/21\/labor-market-workforce-lead-citizen-cx_po_0521countries.html?partner=yahoobuzz\">this Forbes.com article<\/a>.\u00a0 This may make your job look better:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>If you thought <em>you<\/em> worked long hours, consider 39-year-old Lee from South Korea. A civil servant at the ministry of agriculture and fisheries, Lee gets up at 5:30 a.m. every day, gets dressed and makes a two-hour commute into Seoul to start work at 8:30 a.m. After sitting at a computer for most of the day, Lee typically gets out the door at 9 p.m., or even later.<\/p>\n<p>By the time he gets home, it&#8217;s just a matter of jumping in the shower and collapsing into bed, before starting the whole routine all over again, about four hours later. This happens six days a week, and throughout almost all of the year, as Lee gets just three days of vacation.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s right. Three days.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>South Korea.\u00a0 At least according to some survey mentioned in this Forbes.com article.\u00a0 This may make your job look better: If you thought you worked long hours, consider 39-year-old Lee from South Korea. A civil servant at the ministry of agriculture and fisheries, Lee gets up at 5:30 a.m. every day, gets dressed and makes a two-hour commute into Seoul to start work at 8:30 a.m. After sitting at a computer for most of the day, Lee typically gets out the door at 9 p.m., or even later. By the time he gets home, it&#8217;s just a matter of jumping in the shower and collapsing into bed, before starting the&hellip; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2008\/05\/the-hardest-working-country\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"bgseo_title":"","bgseo_description":"","bgseo_robots_index":"","bgseo_robots_follow":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[12],"tags":[700,699],"class_list":["post-1588","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anecdotes","tag-hard-workers","tag-hardest-working-country"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5Oho-pC","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1329,"url":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2007\/12\/wearing-out-the-delete-key\/","url_meta":{"origin":1588,"position":0},"title":"Wearing Out The Delete Key","author":"Lee Fratzke","date":"December 11, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"From a cover email I just received in response to an ad for a regional sales manager: Hi, Lee. I am _____. I live in __, however, I am international, or regional, or national, or whatever the job calls for. It gets worse.\u00a0 The candidate worked in a collection-type role\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Anecdotes&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Anecdotes","link":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/category\/hiring\/anecdotes\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":988,"url":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2007\/06\/cell-phone-tricks-you-may-not-know\/","url_meta":{"origin":1588,"position":1},"title":"Cell Phone Tricks You May Not Know","author":"Lee Fratzke","date":"June 8, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"I am catching up on old email newsletters and came across a very interesting read from Penny Freymiller at MinnesotaJobs.com regarding cell phones. I thought these were great tips: The Emergency Number worldwide is 112. 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I know, sounds silly, but after a couple questions into the interview, I\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Anecdotes&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Anecdotes","link":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/category\/hiring\/anecdotes\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1819,"url":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2008\/12\/online-job-ads-down\/","url_meta":{"origin":1588,"position":3},"title":"Online Job Ads Down","author":"Lee Fratzke","date":"December 5, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"Recently\u00a0Cheezhead mentioned that online job ads are down again in November.\u00a0 According to the Conference Board Help-Wanted Online Data Series online job postings declined 70,200 to 4,369,200 in November.\u00a0 Job postings for the September to November period\u00a0were down\u00a0264,000. 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