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These countries have the highest number of employees working over 50 hours a week

There are countries with the highest percentage of employees working more than 50 hours per week. That equals to 10 hours per day in a 5 day working week.

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These countries have the highest number of employees working over 50 hours a week
An overworked employee in Korea taking a light nap while working. Photo: Flickr

In today's age it has become very difficult to for employees to maintain a work and social life balance. There are countries with the highest percentage of employees working more than 50 hours per week. That equals to 10 hours per day in a 5 day working week.

Korea has the maximum of 23.1% employees working more than 50 hours per week in 2014 in the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) statistics. It was followed by Japan with 21.9% employees working more than 50 hours per week.

Source: Utopiayouarestandinginit.com

These two Asian countries which were on top of the list. However, India and other Asian countries were not featured on this list.

Iceland and New Zealand both came in third with 13.8% employees working more than 50 hours per week in 2014. Australia was a little lower at 13.4% and UK at 12.8%.

The report said that countries with high marginal income tax rates have low levels of long hours worked per week.

This can be seen as countries with Netherlands, Sweden, Denmark and Norway with high income tax rates with low level of employees working more than 50 hours per week.

In terms of the percentage of female employees aged between 25 to 54 years working 40 hours or more per week in 2014, Portugal was on top with 78%. It was followed by Greece and USA with 73% of the female employees working above 40 hours or more per week.

Source: Utopiayouarestandinginit.com

Among men aged between 25 to 54, Iceland had the highest of 90.5% employees working above 40 hours per week. It was followed by US with 89.9% male employees working above 40 hours per week and Portugal with 89.1% employees. New Zealand had 88.6% employees working above 40 hours per week. 

Source: Utopiayouarestandinginit.com

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Written By: ZeeBiz WebTeam
Updated: Sat, Aug 20, 2016
11:24 am
Mumbai, ZeeBiz WebDesk
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