Exceeding the forty hour work week
To follow on from ‘How to Make work-life balence work‘ video Alison Morris from Online MBA has a pretty interesting inforgraphic regarding the effect of the current trend in America to work more than forty hours a week: it is pretty sobering stuff!
While Europe tends to better at work-life balance than North America there is still room for improvement on both sides of the Atlantic. I believe it is in an employers best interests to not over work their staff if they want to get the best quality of work.
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According to the infographic, Sweden has a 31 hour work week. Are you really only working 31 hours? Or is our industry exempt from those norms in every country?
We do 40 at DICE but I think 35 is pretty common.