Have you ever felt like you're being worked to the bone? Well if you live in
one of the countries on this list that the feeling might be tragically accurate.
What is going on, everyone welcome back to the world according to Briggs and a video about countries
that will work you to the bone today; we're looking at countries with the most overworked citizens on
the planet, you know what I'm talking about, overworked people are easy to spot. They have
slumped shoulders, they cry on commuter trains and they pass notes to Starbucks employees that say
help me you know classic overworked behaviors the oecd collected data on the average annual
workers from different industrialized countries sorry north sentinel island did not participate
in this study, I'm gonna explain to you how they did this, it's very complicated
but I'm gonna tell you any way they took the average annual hours and calculated by the
total number of hours actually worked per year divided by the average number of people
in employment per year actual hours included regular work hours full-time part-time and
part-year workers paid and unpaid overtime and hours worked in additional jobs and excluded any
time not worked because of holiday sick or parental leave schooling or training and other
factors in a nutshell we're doing this list by countries that citizens on average work the most
hours every single year so yeah that's all we're going by but they have a big calculation into it
you'll see what i'm talking about just to put in perspective how overworked these places are
the country with the lowest average is actually germany their average citizen only works a little
over 1300 hours a year you're gonna see what a big difference it is by the time we're at the
end of this list all right let's see what we found number 10 the united states kicking off the top 10
most overworked countries is the united states the place i'm currently standing in we work a lot here
oddly enough everyone assumes we're lazy but we're in the top 10 of overworked people
we have all kinds of industries that you know you could be working at including carnival worker
they're always overworked the average american worker works 1786 hours per year and we average
about 41.5 hours a week with 11.1 percent of our employees working over 50 hours a week so yeah we
do some working even though we have a reputation for being lazy number nine poland yeah who saw
this one coming i never thought of poland well actually i never think of poland it's a beautiful
country and they used to make horrible jokes about them in the 1970s but poland's a nice place and
they work their tail off polish employees work about 1792 hours per year on average the average
work week for full-time employees is about 40.9 hours a week about six percent of their employees
work over 50 hours a week poland is big in farming and energy and those are two very demanding
industries in some cases so if you're overworked in those it hurts number eight the czech republic
the czech republic is one of the more beautiful countries in europe it is in between germany
poland austria and slovakia it's a beautiful beautiful country they've got prague prague's one
of the most beautiful cities in europe they have hundreds of mansions castles and chateaus that are
just outstanding it's beautiful country but they got about 11 million people that are overworked
the czech republic's workforce works an average of 1790 hours per year the average work week is
about 40.3 hours and 5.7 percent of the workforce works over 50 hours per week now this is what
sucks it's such a beautiful place and all these beautiful buildings but the average annual wage
in the czech republic is only twenty six thousand nine hundred dollars that's not a lot of money i
mean they don't have the highest cost of living it is pretty low but that's still a low number
number seven israel israel's only been a country since the late 40s when it gained independence
from the united kingdom may 14 1948 to be exact since then they've had all kinds of drama and they
always seem to hit the international news cycle with something going on there recently instead of
terribly bad things going on there they've got a lot of news these days they've got some seriously
good tech coming out of israel in the last handful of years definitely have a growing tech industry
and that's where a lot of their workers are going to this isn't a big country it only has 9 million
residents and the average resident works about 1 901 hours per year that's kind of a step up from
what we've been looking at the average work week in israel for a full-time employee is about 44.4
hours and about 15.5 percent of the employees work over 50 hours per week number six chili now i've
always found chili to be a very interesting country it's got a strange shape it makes me
hungry when i think about it and they have had a coup a dictator and jet fighters bombing the
presidential palace in my lifetime there's always something fun going on in chile now it is a long
narrow coastal south american country on the west side of the andes mountains chile stretches 2 670
miles from north to south and that's about 4 300 kilometers but it is only in width about 217 miles
at its widest point that's about 350 kilometers so it's a strange shaped country like i said chile
ranks sixth for the most overworked countries in a year chilean workers work an average of 1941 hours
the average full-time worker works about 45.7 hours a week and 9.7 percent of the employees
work over 50 hours per week number five greece the greats are hard working people they always have
been i mean they didn't come up with democracy maps and the olympics over a long weekend
they worked at it for years and decades these days they got 10 million hard-working greeks that are
working hard and using windex to heal tennis elbow and stuff like that greece works an average of
1956 hours per year the average full-time work week is about 41.5 hours and about 6.4 percent
of the employees work over 50 hours per week number four russia russians are known for being
hard workers it's like legendary if you think of a russian you think they're a hard-working
person regardless if they are not it's just that's how they are i saw a russian comedian one time at
the comedy magic club in hermos beach california and he was making jokes about how hard-working
russians are and stuff like that he said a russian mother will have a baby while she's working in the
fields and then be back at the field after lunch there are 44 million russians and they work an
average of 1 972 hours per year number three south korea south korea i had no idea they're known as
hard-working people i imagine north korea's they didn't give information for this study so who
knows but i'm sure the people in north korea work on average like 20 hours a day they're not on the
list but south korea yeah i never knew they were known for their hard work and but i guess they
are we've all heard those stories about the uh japanese businessman that works like you know 80
hours a week but i never heard that about south korea south korea is the third most overworked
country in the world they would average about 1993 hours per year that's a lot of working in
2018 the south korean government actually passed a law that reduced the maximum working hours per
week from 68 to 40 with 12 hours of paid overtime yep that would be interesting though to find out
about north korea and how many hours those people work on average you know you work 5 000 hours a
year and you still can't get netflix actually they have their own netflix they don't call it netflix
i'm not even kidding it's pronounced man bang yeah like man bang that's what it's called weird
number two costa rica yeah this another one had no idea great beaches and a little over
5 million residents it's not a big country it's a beautiful place though if you ever get a chance go
there the average annual hours worked by costa ricans is 2121 hours wow that's kind of a jump
we're in the 2000s now costa rica's average full-time work week is slightly longer than
mexico's which is 48.6 what are they working on there i mean i think their biggest industry is
tourism all right before we get to number one don't forget we got another channel called on
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right on to number one and number one mexico they are hard workers i will tell you right now i grew
up in southern california and you know it's very very hispanic area of where i lived actually it's
called torrance redondo south bay every single time i've ever worked with anyone that is from
mexico they work twice as hard as anyone else at the job so this one did not shock me at all mexico
has a population of about 127 million people and they're all hard workers the average annual
hours worked in mexico is two thousand one and 148 hours a year that's a lot this makes them the most
overworked country on the planet the average work week for a full-time employee in mexico is about
48.5 hours about 28.7 percent of mexican employees work over 50 hours a week over a quarter of them
sadly the average annual wages are only 16 298 dollars that's it whole year that's not many pesos
for that hard work actually that's a whole bunch of pesos because a dollar is like 20 pesos so
16 298 that gives you about what 330 000 pesos so yeah you're getting a lot of pesos just not a lot
of dollars all right that's today's video hope you guys enjoyed it hope you got some information out
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