In Korea you are expected to stay at your job until your superior leaves, and arrive before he does. Which makes for insane hours for the low-end folks. It also means a lot of them aren't that productive, because they just fall asleep at their desk. Which in some of these Asian countries is seen as a sign that someone works hard. Over here it's a sign that someone hasn't got their life in order.

I work about 50 hours a week now I think about it. They put an hour for lunch in your contract by law but if you take more than 30 mins employers get pissy.

It's crazy to think that it used to be even worst in the 90s and 2000s for both Japan and Korea ; https://data.oecd.org/emp/hours-worked.htm
You can play around with countries and look back the OECD data for years past.
Both Government have been working on shortening the work hours, Korea in particular has come a long way compared to what it was.

It's still terrible that rich countries like JP and Korea don't seem to understand the concept of efficiency, it's quite a shame. Most countries working similar hours are emerging countries or countries who are in some sort of economic crisis.

The kings of hard work have been Costa Rica and Mexico for a while, they've kept the insanely long hours for a long time as JP and KR steadily declined over a period of over 10 years. Apparently a huge issue is that private companies just don't respect labor laws and employees are fearful of losing their job. Long overtime hours without overtime pay over years, I can't even begin to imagine.

This post was edited by Helloween7 on Jan 18 2018 02:51pm

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politico trying to rip into trump:



considering how this all ended for the native americans, they basically owned themselves with that cartoon.

This post was edited by Black XistenZ on Jan 18 2018 10:54pm

Must be some very important news

well, it's the kind of story that will put a smile on a lot of readers' faces.