{"id":86535,"date":"2018-05-25T19:10:50","date_gmt":"2018-05-25T23:10:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rbach.net\/blog\/index.php\/"},"modified":"2024-03-30T14:59:50","modified_gmt":"2024-03-30T18:59:50","slug":"whats-a-workweek","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rbach.net\/index.php\/whats-a-workweek\/","title":{"rendered":"Whats a Workweek?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/yourstory.com\/2016\/01\/evolution-work-digital-nomad\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"week? whats work a noopener noreferrer\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-92349\" title=\"Whats a Workweek?\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rbach.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/evaluation_work-e1560383230899-150x58.png?resize=176%2C68&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Whats a Workweek?\" width=\"176\" height=\"68\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rbach.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/evaluation_work-e1560383230899.png?resize=150%2C58&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rbach.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/evaluation_work-e1560383230899.png?resize=75%2C29&amp;ssl=1 75w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rbach.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/evaluation_work-e1560383230899.png?resize=768%2C296&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rbach.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/evaluation_work-e1560383230899.png?w=800&amp;ssl=1 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 176px) 100vw, 176px\" \/><\/a>Forty hours<\/strong> is considered a typical American workweek. The U.S. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bls.gov\/news.release\/empsit.t18.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">BLM reports<\/a> that the <span class=\"tableTitle\">average weekly hours and overtime of a<strong>ll IT employees is just over 36 hours<\/strong>.\u00a0<\/span> Add all of those minutes spent answering emails on your phone or stealing glances at your computer when you\u2019re off the clock, you feel like it may easily turn into fifty or more.<\/p>\n<p>Turkish workers average 51.2 hours a week, the most by far! Northern European countries Denmark and the Netherlands had the shortest work weeks \u2013 38.3 hours and 39.1 hours. Here is an infographic from <em><a href=\"https:\/\/getvoip.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">GetVoIP.com<\/a><\/em> who put together a chart of average full-time workweeks in forty countries <strong>around the world<\/strong>. How does your workweek stack up with those in your own country and those in other countries?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"Whats a Work Week?\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/getvoip.com\/uploads\/How-Much-People-Work.png?resize=480%2C3681&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Whats a Work Week?\" width=\"480\" height=\"3681\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Related article<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/work.qz.com\/1189605\/the-9-to-5-workday-isnt-just-hated-its-obsolete\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The 9-to-5 workday isn&#8217;t just hated\u2014it&#8217;s obsolete<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20200221100320\/https:\/\/work.qz.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Quartz at Work<\/a>)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em><a title=\"Ralph Bach\" href=\"https:\/\/rbach.net\/index.php\/new-resume\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Ralph Bach<\/a>\u00a0has been in IT long enough to know better and has blogged from his\u00a0<a title=\"Bach Seat\" href=\"https:\/\/rbach.net\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Bach Seat<\/a> about IT, careers, and anything else that catches his attention since 2005. You can follow him on <a class=\"broken_link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/rb48334\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">LinkedIn<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/ralph.bach.14\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Facebook<\/a>,\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/rbach48334\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Twitter<\/a>. Email the Bach Seat\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:\/\/bach.seat@gmail.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US IT workers average 36 hours a workweek according to the Feds workers in  Turkey work the most and Denmark work the least.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[691],"tags":[3046,3042,2609,691,3043,1359,1830],"class_list":["post-86535","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-jobs","tag-3046","tag-hours-worked","tag-infographic","tag-jobs","tag-life-work-balance","tag-stress","tag-u-s"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rbach.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86535","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rbach.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rbach.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rbach.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rbach.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=86535"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/rbach.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86535\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":130802,"href":"https:\/\/rbach.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86535\/revisions\/130802"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rbach.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rbach.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rbach.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}