The OECD has shed light on
the share of employees working mammoth 60-hour weeks in countries
around the globe. Thankfully, the share putting in a shift longer
than the 40-hour standard is still relatively low in most places, though
it does rise alarmingly in a handful of countries.
In 2015, the latest year data is available, nearly a quarter of
Turkish employees worked 60 hours or more per week in their main job.
Many countries in Asia have earned poor reputations for work-life
balance and in South Korea, the share working extremely long hours every
week comes to 22.6 percent. In Japanese, a word even exists for "death
from overwork" - karoshi. In recent years, the Japanese government has tried to clamp down and change attitudes towards long working hours, with employees tending
to stay late or avoid taking holiday.
Suicide cases and instances of
people dying due to stress, whether it's heart problems or strokes, have
drawn attention to the scale of the problem. According to the OECD, 9.2
percent of workers in Japan still work over 60 hours every week.
The United States is also sometimes seen as a nation of workaholics
and it's well known that employees get a very raw deal on vacation days
and paternity leave compared to other countries. However, very long
working hours are a rare phenomenon in the U.S. with only 3.8 percent of
people working 60 hours plus per week.
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