Forty hours is considered a typical American workweek. The U.S. BLM reports that the average weekly hours and overtime of all IT employees is just over 36 hours. Add all of those minutes spent answering emails on your phone or stealing glances at your computer when you’re off the clock, you feel like it may easily turn into fifty or more.
Turkish workers average 51.2 hours a week, the most by far! Northern European countries Denmark and the Netherlands had the shortest work weeks – 38.3 hours and 39.1 hours. Here is an infographic from GetVoIP.com who put together a chart of average full-time workweeks in forty countries around the world. How does your workweek stack up with those in your own country and those in other countries?
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