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Annual hours worked per engaged person in Europe and in Asia. (Sorry for different color scales.) (images2.imgbox.com)
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Taken from here:

https://landgeist.com/2023/09/02/annual-working-hours-in-europe/

https://landgeist.com/2023/08/22/annual-working-hours-in-asia/

Some other countries if somebody is curious:

  • Brazil: 1708
  • Canada: 1689
  • Mexico: 2137
  • South Africa: 2191
  • USA: 1765
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[โ€“] AI_toothbrush@lemmy.zip 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Even if these numbers are correct they dont tell the whole story. Im moving from hungary to sweden and the stress and amountof work people do is a fraction of whats in hungary.

[โ€“] 768@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago

I wonder how work 'intensity' could be measured. Maybe intensity is only measurable through indirect means like prevalence of overworking-related diseases or a calculated number considering annual working hours and productivity, adjusting GDP per capita for relative productivity...