Which country loves to work? See who doesn't take vacation time

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8-09-2010 @ 7:35AM

Garry said...

The International Labor Organization and other institutions often conduct surveys about national holiday time, vacation time, and productivity.

The survey above is fairly consistent with most of those, which typically show the USA with the least holiday/vacation and yet in the top rankings for productivity (although typically behind a few Scandinavian countries).

Even though Japan is fairly notorious for it's "salaryman" work ethos, it's usually somewhat behind the USA.

The portrayal of the USA as a nation of lazy unproductive couch potatoes is simply NEVER borne about by the actual measured statistics.

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