Working week is longest in the UK, shortest in Denmark

**original PM** · 30 January 2018, 12:32

I am well below average then!

**Laughing Gravy** · 30 January 2018, 12:37

Interesting, current gig is 35 hours

**stek** · 30 January 2018, 12:38

Shortly before I went off to work in Denmark, everyone was telling me, oh, they only work a 33 hours week. When I got there turned out to be bollocks, like the if you go to gym three times a week in Sweden you get a day a week off work one that going the rounds.

And the tic-tac-toe machines 'every' German pedestrian crossing has you play with the person oppsoite while you wait to cross - never saw one of those and neither has any German person I know....

**clearedforlanding** · 30 January 2018, 12:41

Originally posted by stek View Post

Shortly before I went off to work in Denmark, everyone was telling me, oh, they only work a 33 hours week. When I got there turned out to be bollocks, like the if you go to gym three times a week in Sweden you get a day a week off work one that going the rounds.

And the tic-tac-toe machines 'every' German pedestrian crossing has you play with the person oppsoite while you wait to cross - never saw one of those and neither has any German person I know....

Different to my experience. I spent more time eating cake than actually working. I am sick of cake.

That said, despite earning 4 figures, cake was a luxury. Did most of my shopping at Netto.

**stek** · 30 January 2018, 13:05

Originally posted by clearedforlanding View Post

Different to my experience. I spent more time eating cake than actually working. I am sick of cake.

That said, despite earning 4 figures, cake was a luxury. Did most of my shopping at Netto.

I went to Irma, and the Mad shop in the Main station in Copes. Then a wander around the plastic wonderland that is the Tivoli Gardens. Then bus home to Sydhavn with a kekab from the Poslevogn thing. Always froze my nackers off waiting for that bus, was winter, but funny laughing at the Spanish tourists literally shivering....

**ladymuck** · 30 January 2018, 13:18

There's doing work and there's being at work. I suspect the UK is great at the latter, not so great at the former.

**WTFH** · 30 January 2018, 13:19

Originally posted by original PM View Post

I am well below average then!

"Working" yes, I'm below average too.

"Billing", on the other hand...

**northernladuk** · 30 January 2018, 13:26

Originally posted by WTFH View Post

"Working" yes, I'm below average too.

"Billing", on the other hand...

+1 to what Work'T From Home says.

**reddog** · 30 January 2018, 13:30

They seem to be mixing EU and Europe.

Currently in Switzerland, my standard working week is 42 hours.

Working week is longest in the UK, shortest in Denmark