{"id":989,"date":"2007-06-08T10:20:06","date_gmt":"2007-06-08T15:20:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2007\/06\/countries-with-the-longest-work-weeks\/"},"modified":"2007-06-08T10:20:42","modified_gmt":"2007-06-08T15:20:42","slug":"countries-with-the-longest-work-weeks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2007\/06\/countries-with-the-longest-work-weeks\/","title":{"rendered":"Countries With The Longest Work Weeks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From CNNMoney.com&#8217;s <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/money.cnn.com\/rssclick\/2007\/06\/07\/news\/ilo_study\/index.htm?section=money_news_economy\">They work harder for the money<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The International Labor Organization (ILO), a United Nations agency, conducted a study of more than 50 countries and found that <strong>22 percent of the total workforce surveyed (614.2 million people) worked more than 48 hours a week<\/strong>, an amount the ILO defines as excessive.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>Among the developed nations covered in the report, ILO found that the countries with the highest percentage of workers putting in a longer than 48-hour workweek are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Japan: 39.3%<\/li>\n<li>United Kingdom: 25.7%<\/li>\n<li>Israel: 25.5%<\/li>\n<li>New Zealand: 23.6%<\/li>\n<li>Australia: 20.4%<\/li>\n<li>Switzerland: 19.2%<\/li>\n<li><strong>United States: 18.1%<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>First off, it is a UN agency so that must be considered.  I must admit I was surprised by some of the countries on this list.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From CNNMoney.com&#8217;s They work harder for the money: The International Labor Organization (ILO), a United Nations agency, conducted a study of more than 50 countries and found that 22 percent of the total workforce surveyed (614.2 million people) worked more than 48 hours a week, an amount the ILO defines as excessive. Among the developed nations covered in the report, ILO found that the countries with the highest percentage of workers putting in a longer than 48-hour workweek are: Japan: 39.3% United Kingdom: 25.7% Israel: 25.5% New Zealand: 23.6% Australia: 20.4% Switzerland: 19.2% United States: 18.1% First off, it is a UN agency so that must be considered. I must&hellip; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2007\/06\/countries-with-the-longest-work-weeks\/\">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":[5,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-989","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-trends","category-worklife-balance"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5Oho-fX","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1019,"url":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2007\/06\/a-lack-of-productivity-overseas\/","url_meta":{"origin":989,"position":0},"title":"A Lack Of Productivity Overseas","author":"Derrick Moe","date":"June 20, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"We don't work in the international hiring arena so this may be old news to some of you. 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