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Americans Work 25% More Than Europeans, Study Finds (bloomberg.com)
Americans are addicted to their jobs. U.S. workers not only put in more hours than workers do almost anywhere else. They're also increasingly retiring later and taking fewer vacation days, reports Bloomberg. From the article: A new study tries to measure precisely how much more Americans work than Europeans do overall. The answer: The average person in Europe works 19 percent less than the average person in the U.S. That's about 258 fewer hours per year, or about an hour less each weekday. Another way to look at it: U.S. workers put in almost 25 percent more hours than Europeans. Hours worked vary a lot by country, according to the unpublished working paper by economists Alexander Bick of Arizona State University, Bettina Bruggemann of McMaster University in Ontario, and Nicola Fuchs-Schundeln of Goethe University Frankfurt. Swiss work habits are most similar to Americans', while Italians are the least likely to be at work, putting in 29 percent fewer hours per year than Americans do.
I mean bragging about our victory over socialized medicine is fun and all..
Simply stated...
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Working more does not necessarily mean more productivity. It's especially hard to be productive when you're burning your limited PTO/vacation allotments for unplanned family illnesses rather than... you know... planned restful downtime.
Need more unions and workers rights!
As Americans measure everything by size and not quality, I am not surprised by this. My USA counterparts are much more at the office, and producing less work than the continental ones. Make a study about effectiveness and I am your man!
Greed is God.
Americans have to work more hours and take fewer vacation days because they are poorer at this point, given that USA is running 500,000,000,000 a year trade deficit and has been running that for 2 decades now, Americans cannot afford anything, they are completely stuck in debt and their government in concert with the Federal reserve are destroying the value of their money, value of theirs savings every days. Government spending and money printing, pushing interest rates down to keep borrowing more by doing things like 'operation twist' (the Fed buying long term bonds at negative real interest rates because nobody else would), all of this is expanding the money supply making USD less valuable all the time, thus making Americans less productive every day.
The only way out of this insanity is to restructure the debts, an honest default on the USD denominated debt, stopping all government spending (yes, this means all wars, all SS payments, all Medicare payments, everything). You have to clear away all of your debts, allow the bond holders to lose money so that the interest rates would reset to normal levels (only real market without government intervention can set real interest rates). Get the government out of your money because otherwise you will never have vacations or retirement savings or anything.
You can't handle the truth.
Wage slave here. Recently changed jobs (moved) and new company gives only 8 days a year vacation+Personal Holiday+mandatory holiday. I would love to work less... My wife and I are still discussing if we could afford for me to be Mr. Mom and her to work (she does make 2x what I make)... Lately I have been working the actual hours I get paid for, and have even been taking all of the breaks I am entitled to, but nobody ever takes, and my life satisfaction has gone way up. It's not that most americans are addicted to their job, it's that they are made to feel that if they don't work 120% of the hours they are "paid to work" then they will look like slackers and be let go.
It's highly unlikely that we're addicted to our jobs. It's not usually by any choice that someone will work more and get less vacation. This is a cultural issue that's being pushed on the working classes by employers. I'd love to have a mandatory month of vacation and see everyone work less than 40 hours per week, as they tend to do in Europe.
Bite my shiny metal ass!
What do they have to show for it? That depends on whether you fit in.
If you fit in, you've got money to show for it.
If you don't fit in, you've got nothing to show for it.
There is only so much time in the week in which you can work at full productivity. After that you spend much more time to accomplish the same work and become exhausted, which also drags down your performance for the rest of the week. Same for vacations, sickdays and job security: If you can recharge properly and do not have to worry, then your better productivity more than makes up for the time not spent at work (not necessarily working).
Other interesting questions: Is retiring later a disservice to young people looking for work? For the above reasons putting in 25% more time does not give 25% more results but just more time spent (otherwise, who would hire anyone but Americans?). So why are the working hours still that different?
Pfft. Get back to me when hours worked equals productivity.
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Americans don't like to work. We're trying to survive with rising costs, leaps in inflation of everyday goods.
And this only scrapes the surface, I wager Americans also spend a significant greater amount of time commuting to work than their western European counterparts.
These seven issues need attention by the federal government. (Which is unlikely to act due to corporate lobbying efforts)
1. Employment At Will
Replace with the "Just Cause" model.
2. Contingent (Temporary) Employees
Enact rules to make sure that contingent employees are treated the same as regular employees.
3. H-1B visa's
Cut back on the number of H-1B visas, and make sure that they are paid the same as US citizens.
4. Binding arbitration in Employment Agreements
Prohibit the use of binding arbitration in employment agreements, or at least make it optional.
5. Noncompete Agreements
Ban Noncompetes at the federal level.
6. Lack of statutory vacation and sick leave at the federal level.
Enact a minimum federal standard for vacation and sick leave days.
7. Abuse of Exempt employees with regard to overtime.
Limit the use of overtime to 48 hours averaged over a 6 week period (Like the European Working Time Directive)
Conventional wisdom says that everything about Europeans is always better than everything about Americans. You get socially rewarded by high-social-status people for saying so. So not working is better than working in this case, regardless of whether that makes sense or not.
I work in government IT. My contract prohibits me from working more than 40 hours a week. I get paid federal holidays, 20 Paid Time Off (PTO) days and five unpaid day offs. No gold-plated pension and/or watch, however. I also make 50% less than my Silicon Valley counterparts in the public sector. But I'm well rested. ;)
"The U.S.’s shift from traditional pensions to 401(k) plans makes it harder for Americans to know when it’s safe to retire."
I'm completely in this boat. I'm 50 and have saved approximately $2M USD. Is that enough? My father turns 90 this year, so I'm essentially trying to do 40 years worth of economic prognostication. What will health care cost in the year 2050? Food? Energy? If I had a defined pension benefit that was linked to some kind of COLA, it could make my retirement a lot more certain.
So an analysis on number of hours worked without a corresponding analysis on the relative productivity?
Entries like this appear biased and to promote an agenda of "one of these is better" rather than an objective "resulting in the expected greater productivity" or "productivity is does not scale linearly showing a diminishing return".
Which is why a lot of people have two jobs, and two jobs is almost becoming a requirement. That certainly doesn't mean better productivity, and when you consider the US has the dollar, which is the world's reserve currency, a future where that is no longer the case is pretty alarming.
Could be. We may be a simulation, and the server owner(s) sell "interference time" to the highest bidders. "Q" and Trump are customers who come to screw around in the "ant farm" as avatars. (Hillary doesn't give the vibe of a vacationer.)
We are toys, analogous to Toy Story, except we don't know, like Buzz.
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The USA spend about as much for "defense" than the rest of the world. This is a huge cost (of order 1T$/yr) that the main superpower is unable to let other countries cover in a way or another (say by buying USD for free). In the end being US citizen has a cost that translates in more work time, lower life quality than a couple of other countries.
If "one hour per weekday" is 25% extra, then that implies that Europeans have a 4-hour working day. Bzzzzzt!
More like 12.5% (or "pieces of eighth" as the Parrot in the Diskworld is implying when it squawks "12.5%" repeatedly)
But what matters is productivity not hours. I mean, screw hours. I'm judged on what I produce not how long it took me to do it.
The study was designed to make it easier to compare countries to each other, by capturing the overall hours per person, not just for people with jobs. That incorporates not just the length of the typical workweek but also retirement, vacation, unemployment, and other time spent out of the workforce.
What the report is really showing is that there are more people working per capita in the US than in Europe. That's what you can expect from socialism, and would be exacerbated by the oft discussed UBI.
1. no real work week. a plurality of americans work in the service sector, which is far different than an office job. theyre intentionally scheduled to work 39 hours, or some subset below 40, to avoid insurance from their employer which is mandated by law. This has become less of an issue lately due to the affordable care act, however it doesnt excuse the fact that most service sector does not have a set schedule.
2. no schedules. service sector and manufacturing often have mandatory overtime requirements. You cant be fired, by law, for refusing overtime however in almost all states you can simply fire the worker for no reason at all. Hence, it pays to work overtimes to stay in the good grace of the employer. finally
3. low wages. if youre only working for ten dollars an hour at 20 hours a week, youre working 2-3 jobs to maintain an apartment and a car (a car is generally required in america.) if you have kids or a family, or are a single parent, the burden requires you to pick up far more than 40 hours of work at a low pay grade. this isnt likely to change as the united states has the unique approach of using children as punishment for sex. contraception, abortion, and even simple reproductive education in the United states are inconsistent and wraught with urban legends, religious overtones, and outright pseudoscience.
4. predatory culture of consumption. everything here is offered on credit, with unlimited financing and relatively lax regulation (especially in subprime markets) of terms. In the US its not uncommon for a security guard making $13 an hour to drive a Lexus or Acura luxury sedan, because the terms and conditions of her credit never take into account the fact that a $48,000 touring sedan isnt in their budget. US check caching companies can charge more than 50% interest with impunity, and many do. The average US citizen carries more than ten thousand dollars in debt at any given time.
Good people go to bed earlier.
I mean, if you think adding 1 hour more a day (8 becomes 9) is a 25% increase in hours, you need to go back and do a little recalculating...
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Mugs.
Buried in all the statisics abuse in the summaries there is a paper of significance only to historians. This paper is based on numbers for 2005-2007, before the financial crisis.
It also does not reflect work per person, but work for a theoretical average person age 15-64. Employment rate is a component of this person, so as employment rate drops so does the hours this average person works.
Actually, that feels intuitively wrong, the ~25 hours per week in the US seems way too high when employment rate is factored in, but I am not interested enough in how much we all worked 10 years ago to read the paper more carefully.
Besides, I don't have time for this, I have to get back to work.
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So according to my math they must be at least 1000% more productive than Europeans.
...Europeans are lazy?
EU overall trades at a *profit*. There may be some of the smaller countries struggling (notably Greece) but overall EU does not have to internally inflates its economy with QE.
This is a problem with a few key economies that run at huge deficits and go the easy short-term route of internally inflating their economies. Japan had it for decades, US followed, UK joined them.
Americans can afford plenty, they just buy a bunch of stupid shit that has no resell value for when they're eventually broke.
Americans choose to live month-to-month because they need to have all the latest crap.
People on /. whine that they're in their 50s and can't find a job blah blah blah. What were you doing the 30 years prior? Obviously not saving money, that's for sure.
Americans are addicted to their jobs. U.S. workers not only put in more hours than workers do almost anywhere else. They're also increasingly retiring later and taking fewer vacation days, ...
Perhaps we're just afraid of being unemployed and destitute. Employers show little loyalty to their employees (Pro Tip: If your company says "employees are our most valuable asset" start looking for another job.), the social safety net is not as strong as in Europe and it's clear that our politicians don't really care about the poor and (arguably) middle class -- look at the various budgets, including the latest Republican House budget which gets 62% from low/moderate income programs while also including tax cuts for the wealthy. (see below).
House GOP Budget Gets 62 Percent of Budget Cuts From Low- and Moderate-Income Programs
It must have been something you assimilated. . . .
It's a lot harder to quit your job and strike out on your own now that having health insurance is the law. I'm in my late 30's and can't do what i did in my 20's because i went without insurance for many years.
If a few hundred dollars a month for health insurance is the difference between you starting a business vs not bothering you probably were doomed to failure from the start. That's a flimsy excuse to not try. It's no harder to start your own business than it ever was and in a lot of ways it's easier today than in years gone by. There certainly are more resources available to help a budding entrepreneur.
We are NOT addicted to our jobs. We HAVE to work 25% more than everyone else to KEEP our jobs, because workers in the US have ZERO protection against anti-competitive, inhumane, and employment practices that are ILLEGAL in Europe.
We have to compete with workers in countries where there are no labor laws, no environmental standards, no minimum wages, no nothing. We have to compete with people who are essentially state-owned slaves. We're trying to break out in the lead in the race to the bottom, because if we don't, we lose our jobs to one of those people.
And, our own government is leading the charge. So-called "liberals" and their banker buddies have been trying to make indentured servants of middle class America for ages - ever since the New Deal, all while claiming to want to "help."
Help us how, exactly? By making it prohibitively expensive to do things in the US? By imposing onerous and overbearing regulations that don't make sense? By telling me that slinging burgers at McDonalds is economically equivalent to the job I do that I spend $100K on a degree for? Please.
Some regulation is necessary, of course. There is a "right" amount that makes working safe and effective, and that levels the playing field. But, we surpassed that long ago. Today it is an active assault by government on entrepreneurship and individual success.
I've voted for Democrats all my life. As a black man I took it as my duty, having been told by my father who grew up during the Civil Rights Movement that Democrats were the only ones who fought for minority rights. I now know that my father was hoodwinked, and I refuse to be hoodwinked as well.
Wage Slaves
F-U corporate 'Mer'ka.
The fact that a lot of people in the US have multiple jobs working many hours just to be able to buy food and pay rent is not something you should be proud of.
listening to the feminist crowd. Man up and admit you make more than she does. Don't let silly things like numbers or figures get in the way of oppressing women!
These problems are really systemic of a socialist culture and governmental system. After living in Europe for almost a decade now, it's obvious that people who are born into their class stay there indefinitely. This is especially so in Spain and other Med countries where children end up living with their parents until their mid 30s. Onerous government meddling in business and regulations that destroy job creation (the real wealth distributors) are keeping people from moving into the next stages of life.
It's only a matter of time before the infamous "European" social nets collapse due to the lack of growth in population and economics. Between tenth of a percent GDP growth, terrible demographics from educated people, an astounding increase in welfare recipients from migrants (northern Africans are NOT refugees), and negative interest rates from the European Central Bank Europe is on a precipice. If the dollar increases strongly in value, Europe along with the rest of the world will face a damning dollar shortage and sovereign debt defaults making their welfare states collapse.
Europeans will face this reality soon enough. Personally, I expect civil war within Europe as folks get fed up with the lack of economic opportunities in the face of increasing taxes to support the over burdened welfare and pension systems.
I'll get modded negatively for this, but it's the truth and it's time the music gets heard.
It should read "American spend 25% more time at work than worker Europe". My experience working and watching various type of environment, is that at the end of the day, your average US worker did the same work as your average Europe worker, just in a longer time.
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I think it is interesting to see and note. It's data. More data gives you more things to compare. We aren't exactly comparing like for like here. The US is huge. Yet it is compared to European countries, some of which are tiny. Look, we're different. So that we work more is just a data point, and judgement shouldn't be passed down on that data alone. The type of work is relevant as well.
Moreover, how do other places like Japan or China or Australia compare? We likely won't have comparable data, so it makes coming to conclusions more tricky.
I get that this is a simple generalized comparison. Jumping to conclusions based on it is quite irresponsible, IMO.
My beliefs do not require that you agree with them.
From Work and Leisure in the U.S. and Europe: Why So Different?, hours worked by Europeans and Americans were about the same in the 1960's, although the number of hours were dropping for all every year. In about 1980, the US and Europe diverged, with hours continuing to drop in Europe, but the US plateauing.
Two reasons have been explored. The first is due to tax differences, and indeed labor taxes have been rising in the EU since the end of the 1960's. The other is differences in labor regulations, such as the requirement for contracts, limitations in legal working hours (such as the 35 hour workweek established in 2000 in France).
I guess that means I'm way worse off.
Please don't force me to work less just so that you don't feel peer pressure to work more.
And, depending on how you count, >60% of the people in the country live in urban areas. I guess we're all idiots.
Or maybe you're such a narcissist that you can't imagine a different way of life than your own.
Actually, it just means that the greeks are lazy fucks, the itallians not much better, and good luck getting a Spaniard to show up at all. Remember that Europe has 3 failed economies.
I always seem to work myself out of a job. I'm in the office like 5 hours a day and I'd be surprised if I'm actually working for 30 minutes a day. Yay for automation!
Or is it what they claim? Staying at the office long hours is not necessarily correlated with working. Many stay at the office long hours because they can't stand going home, in this country where being divorced multiple times is commonplace.
This what's so destructive about religion (work yourself to death / blow yourself up, Protestants / Muslims, and we promise you paradise in the **next** life!!).
And where is religion waning? Oh, look at that: the same place where work / life balance is far healthier: Western Europe.
And that may be a problem in the future, but there is no downside to having a lot of US dollars right now, and diversifying your savings. You can't put it all in commodities because you'll lose in inflation, and you can't put it all in stocks because that'll crash at some point.
However, if you're poor and entering 50s, you're fucked, there's no way around it. Pray for UBI and dragging down the middle class so you won't feel quite as poor.
I would take more if I had them. I don't think this is as much a problem of "Americans overwork themselves" as much as "companies work Americans like dogs".
They should do a study.
Europe, required min - 26 working days, typical 30 days.
US, required min - ? , typical working 10 days.
Sure americans work more by that metric alone.
One thing I could see contributing to this difference is the amount of time _wasted_ at work. Now that I'm a dad whose wife also works, as soon as I'm in the office the proverbial clock starts ticking. If I don't want to be stuck doing stuff after the kids go to bed at night, I have to get my work done in that narrow window of time. Lots of tech employers, especially Silicon Valley type companies operate on the college campus model, where long hours in the office are encouraged and part of the culture. Google serves 3 meals a day to their employees, and expects you to be there long before/long after those meals to make up for it. Your workplace becomes your extended family, and you are expected to put in time accordingly. If you want to see an extreme of this, look at Japanese work culture, where salarymen work massive amounts of hours _and_ have to go drinking with the boss when they're done.
If more employers would adopt the "get your stuff done when you want, as long as it gets done" mentality, I think most people would choose to be at work fewer hours. This may not be true for recent college grads who have no commitments at home, but I think it's very true for anyone wanting to maintain some sort of home life. You could say that in the traditional family, the father was the one working all the time and that was all that mattered, but I think priorities and society are shifting away from that.
You live to work, while we work to live.
-- European saying to American counterparts
It's more like Stockholm Syndrome...
less vacation, worse health care, and less job security (Google up 2016 layoffs).
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That is not the real problem. The real problem is that when an economy stops growing due to demographics, you get (a) a whole lot more people trying to save and (b) fewer and fewer places where investing those savings will provide a positive return.
This is what has happened. It is why asset prices are ridiculous, and it is why the fed is doing its very best to destroy savings. Most of the savings people are making are never going to be redeemable, and the fed wants the destruction process to happen gradually. If they don't then people will get one hell of a surprise when they attempt to spend their 'savings' during the coming retirement bulge.
What we need to be doing is investing in producing more of the things that retired people will need - mostly medical care. If we don't increase the supply of those services, then saving becomes a zero-sums game where only those at the very top will have enough wheel barrows of cash to get that hip operation or coronary bypass.
But politicians for as long as I remember don't want to talk about the retirement entitlement problem. So they left it to the banking sector which just paper over everything by making people believe that worthless pieces of paper will be their ticket to the hard goods and services they will need as they age.
We need to have a proper intergenerational debate about this, and broker a compromise. I won't enjoy seeing old people suffering in the future anymore than I enjoy seeing the dreams of so many young people being destroyed right now.
Europaeische ubermensch machen untermensch arbeiten in arbeitlager und gaszimmer. Heil Europa!
What is Sweden doing abuot this difference? They are planning the six-hour working day.
It appears that the productivity per hour worked actually goes up (in constrast to the productivity per worker per year). It also means more jobs.
I would agree, considering
1. I have a scary choice as an American worker;
2. If I elect NOT to choose freedom and 40-hour weeks, the employer will get every bit they can out of me without nearing the cost of another worker;
3. If I elect to enforce a choice, there are others that will happily take my place and work for less compensation, and there are plenty available*. This is about fear, not about what WILL happen for sure. Uncertainty is the biggest part of the fear, IMHO.
* That's not even taking into account contracted or off-shored labor.
Yes, Americans work more. More out of fear of loss, and the fear of loss comes from what there is to be lost. e.g. Billy Bob gets a job with Cyberdynetics as a systems engineer. He works more than 40 hours per week because his employer lets him, and he gets more income that way. Once a threshold is reached, the employer converts him to salary. On a salary, Billy knows what he can afford in his lifestyle and how to save enough to at least have a glimmering hope of there being a decent livable life after the floating age of retirement. He works more and more to ensure his job won't be given to "some kid" who costs 1/4 of what he does and is fresh out of college. By working more, he's showing his value and ability. The company makes the decision they were going to make with or without his traits - offshoring (for instance) can save 15% over a year's time and reduces liability (worker's comp, potential lawsuits) along with not giving a crap what "vacation time" is for the offshore company - they manage that crud. Total savings, more than 15%. All Company pays for is people (or something, somewhere) getting work done.
Most people in the position of "Billy" opt to increase their work hours to help them internally ensure themselves that when decisions are made of who to get rid of, he will be near the bottom of the list. Companies have wind of ideas and costs of those ideas passing around internally, occasionally, and people in the Billy spot tend to be in a fearful position and don't have much of a way to compensate for that fear other than using drugs/alcohol (which can definitely get you canned and on the bottom of any potential hire-me lists in the future), or working extra hours to ensure the employer sees and feels his worth. That leaves him in a position of a possibility of success that outweighs using substances to quash the fear. It's a downward spiral. Unless you're a C?O, your hair will most likely grey from stress in your late 30s to early 40s.
I could be completely wrong, but I've observed the center point of the "work more in USA" issue being an attempt to stay on top when there are so many young'uns available for low cost and being influenced to follow the Company's position on things because, you know, they're young. Less life experience. Easier to believe whatever you hear, if you want to, and feel invincible. That lowers with age and experience; repeat process. That's all I've got from observing those around me in different places at different ages, under different socio-economic conditions at the given time. There seems to be a constant. ...."and that's all I got ta say about that."
Doesn't that just simply point out how little guaranteed vacation time the US has compared to most European Nations ? Work + Quality of life = Europe.
End of Line.
My washing machine works hard. The important thing for humans is to work smart. Folks in the EU are doing just fine not killing themselves at work, getting burned out less that... others. Heed this.
We,so does this mean that Americans are really 20% more productive than Europeans or just that they are at their place of work longer ?
I would suggest that they spend li her at work,but are no more productive,they just like to look as if their keen for their bosses...
If that's the case,then they are LESS productive than Europeans,the working week in the UK was cut back in the 1970's after the series of national strikes,including power and it turned out afterwards that productivity had actualy gone UP,when everyone was only allowed to work a three day week !!
Turned out it was the same problem,lots of time put in at work,but not actually doing anything productive...
When you talk to some of these people who work full time for low wages, yet buy something like a high-end automobile on credit? You discover something interesting. Most of the time, it's not about them being so unable to do basic math that they don't realize they're "living above their means".
Rather, they're taking the attitude of, "Screw it.... If some lender is willing to let me get this, why not do it? Then I can drive something around I'm proud to be seen in and enjoy driving. If something happens and I can't make the monthly payment anymore? Oh well... let them come take it back from me. At least I got to enjoy using it while I had it."
In other words, they'd see YOU as the sucker for working as hard as they do, and still settling for driving around some 10 year old Toyota. I mean, YOU'RE the one playing into the hands of the bankers and the "system" -- all worried about hurting your credit score, instead of realizing that in the worst case scenario, you can just file bankruptcy, wipe away all the debts while hanging onto most of what you amassed up until then. Wait for 7 years and you're right back to where you were before with those scores and levels of "credit risk".
Yea we spend all that "Extra" work time fighting with the windows 10 machine,
Man, if only I had mod points. And Luxemburg is more like a group of buddies that decided to hang out on some land than a country. Norway is only so high because of oil combined with being a modern Western democracy. Norway is pretty cool, I will give them that.
The rest of you primitive screwhead Europeans should zip your nonsense-emitter about how productive you are.
"European Lifestyle" also means single payer medicine, 4 or more weeks vacation, and an efficient mass transit system.
Reminds me of when I went to Germany for a week to attend a music festival in Leipzig. I was talking to the Germans and the typical reaction was along the lines of "You rich Americans who can afford to fly to a different continent for a week to attend a music festival." My answer was "you rich Europeans that can afford to take more than a week off of work. I have to get back to pay for all this." There is certainly a difference in vacation idealologies that I observed. Europeans cut costs, stay in hostels, camp even in major cities, etc. They'll take their several weeks and backpack around Europe with barely enough money to buy food and beer. This seems because they have lots of vacation time and somewhat less money. Americans work a lot, as evidenced by this article, and get just a fraction of a European's vacation. In such a case, the American idea of a vacation is typically "money is no object" so while they are vacation, they splurge because although they'll have to work hard to pay it all back, they'll probably do so before they get another vacation. This probably contributes some of the American image abroad.
I spend 100% doing my normal job and another 25% fixing the offshore screw-ups.
More hours and less pay, less social benefits, less job security, no five week vacations, no paid maternity leave, yeah we like it when we don't know how bad it it really is. Ignorance is bliss.
Europeans are lazy. America has to work more to help support European's social programs.
Or maybe Europeans just don't care about their jobs.
Remember all you Americans. When you die early, all the money you paid into SSN disappears. Even if you don't die early and you paid into another retirement system, you don't get any SSN. My grandma is a victim. What a great fucking country.
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Yes, many Europeans work less than folks in the US and they also have a higher standard of living in some nations. Looks like socialism is kicking capitalism square in the rear end to me.
They might find that during said time the Parisian Frenchman will have written several copies of his letter of resignation as well.
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errr....umm...*whooosh* *whoosh* Is this thing on ?
The study quotes a 19% difference. So why inflate that by 31% to 25%? And even worse, use that inflated number in the headline?
Watch all the lazy Europeans lash out, instead of working.
"Americans are addicted to their jobs. U.S. workers not only put in more hours than workers do almost anywhere else. They're also increasingly retiring later and taking fewer vacation days, reports Bloomberg. "
TRY:
Americans are working longer hours to maintain satisfaction with their employers. U.S. workers put in more hours than anywhere else to avoid being replaced by someone that will do it for less, from another country. They also don't get much over 10 days or vacation time to use per year, and they only get to take that if they're very lucky and their primary manager allows it. Sick days or time out for sickness is a pipe dream.
FTFY.
.......gotten over the whole slavery "thing".
It's in the DNA.
They're still doing it, although now the slaves pay for their own food and shelter and medical, and fight each other to clap on heavier chains.
Yeehaww...
Is that like the fucking peasant Americans that don't even go to the dentist because they can't afford it ? About 200 million of them I believe. Is that what you mean peasant ?
Don't get sick now, or want more than a day at one time away from your battery hen wage cage. If something unfortunate was to happen to you it'd break my fucking heart.
Europe isn't socialist. Last time I looked BMW and M&S and Bosch were doing just fine in their respective countries.
They are all capitalist market economies.
Anyone who says Europe is "socialist" is a fucking idiot pleb who's just a replaceable bitch for their corporate overlord.
No wonder they find it so easy to control the peasants in the US. They're kept stupid and brainwashed.
Looks like I pissed off another butter toothed Eurotrash bitch. I actually have what is considered a Cadillac health plan in America you knob gobbling dip shit. You stick with your shitty Eurotrash Maybama Care and I'll make sure I can see real physicians and dentists you snaggle toothed mother fucker.
Seems to be Europe as a whole. What about France? They could drag the entire continent down. What about these new migrants, almost all young men with no skill. You know, like an invading force. I'm seeing pictures of Europe and I'm not seeing women and children. I'm seeing soldier aged men.
They just don't have a voice.
Unlike the heavily unionized Germany, France, Italy and Great Britain.
Maybe some people have found jobs that they enjoy doing?
Maybe they retire, get bored in a month or two, and go back to work as a "consultant"?
One thing: People that work at something, even volunteer work, tend to live longer...