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Discussion - Labor > Days off work
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Peter (Canada)
25th September 2007 |
The definition is rather vague: "Number of days not worked for every 1000 salaried employees."
"FACTOID # 50: More than a third of the time, Icelanders don't show up for work. Perhaps that's why they're the world's happiest nation."
The alleged "factoid" above would only make sense if the definition was "Number of person-days* not worked out of 1000 person-days*", which would imply an average (since the unit is the same), and which pretty much would be the original definition with "days" replaced with "person-days*" and "salaried employees" replaced with "person-days*".
Clarifying "days" like this would also be helpful. If you included weekends, etc. then it would seem that there are no weekends in Switzerland. Or perhaps each country is measured differently, making this whole thing totally useless.
*Days = normal working days, excluding holidays, weekends, and vacation |
Richard (USA)
23rd July 2006 |
Iceland is amazing, not only do they get away with no work, but they manage to get in two extra days on normal years and one extra day on leap years. |
Philip Collins
27th February 2006 |
The significance of the figures is not clear. Do they refer to paid public holidays, or days of sickness, or both, or all paid time not worked? I find it hard to believe that Iceland's 367 days and Switzerland's 1 day can measure the same thing. |
Christoffer
4th November 2005 |
I'm looking for data on Production Days for European countries (Sweden, especially), from fourth quarter 2003 and forward. Help would be very appreciated! Many thanks! |
MG
21st October 2005 |
Sweden needs to be up there. Everyone is on sick/stress leave here despite a stress-less work environment. My company has 32 people on stress leave out of 500 employees. This is for long term stress leave, about 4 months. Soft people here in Sweden! |
Paul Nugent
18th October 2005 |
I don't know. I'm looking for a world countries ranking of the same kind of thing: work and leisure time. Please let me know if you find anything. paulnugent@mac.com |
Jeniffer
27th September 2005 |
I'm looking for data on number of working hours and time off for Malaysia. Anybody has a clue as to where I should start looking for these stats? Thanks!! |
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