Working week is longest in the UK, shortest in Denmark

[NotAllThere]

They seem to be mixing EU and Europe.

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

Lowest I've seen is 40. Highest is 45.

[greenlake]

These Are the Most Productive Countries in the World | Time

[woohoo]

WHS

The UK is not a very productive environment for work. It should be about quality not quantity.

I think there is some truth in this but I don't think it's the entire story.

Lack of investment mean that business are not investing in machinery and equipment. Get cheap labour in and we can import this pretty easily. When you have an abundance of cheap labour why invest in more efficient practices.

[NorthWestPerm2Contr]

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.

WHS

The UK is not a very productive environment for work. It should be about quality not quantity.

[reddog]

They seem to be mixing EU and Europe.

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

[northernladuk]

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

"Billing", on the other hand...

+1 to what Work'T From Home says.

[WTFH]

I am well below average then!

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

"Billing", on the other hand...

[ladymuck]

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.

[stek]

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....

[clearedforlanding]

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]

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....

[Laughing Gravy]

Interesting, current gig is 35 hours

[original PM]

I am well below average then!

[clearedforlanding]

How many hours do Europeans work per week? - Product - Eurostat