Here Are The Top 10 Hardest Working Countries In The World

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Though we Americans would like to think we work the most — and many of us can be classified as workaholics — it seems that, on average, we don’t have it that bad. In fact, people from 15 major countries including Greece, Ireland and Portugal work more hours than Americans by far. Topping the list is Mexico, whose citizens work an average of 2,255 hours per worker annually.

The Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) surveyed full-time employees from 38 countries on how many hours they worked in full, excluding any time off due to holidays, annual paid leave, illness, injury and temporary disability, parental leave, schooling or training, among other conditions.

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Below is the list of the top 10 hardest working countries based on hours worked per year:

1. Mexico: 2,255 hours per worker
2. Costa Rica: 2,212 hours per worker
3. Korea: 2,069 hours per worker
4. Greece: 2,035 hours per worker
5. Russia: 1,974 hours per worker
6. Chile: 1,974 hours per worker
7. Poland: 1,928 hours per worker
8. Latvia: 1,910 hours per worker
9. Israel: 1,889 hours per worker
10. Lithuania: 1,885 hours per worker

The United States ranked at number 16 on the list, logging 1,783 hours annually per worker.

We gotta hand it to the hardest working countries. You guys are lean mean working machines, and you deserve a solid vacay. If it were up to us, you’d be on a beach somewhere. 😎

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