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The UK being that high makes me feel very sorry for everyone in the countries ranked lower
Yeah, we moved from Germany to the UK a year or so ago and are about to move back pretty much specifically because of this.
Maybe it’s just London, but here there is a really prevalent “hustle culture” and everyone is doing things like joining work calls during their holidays or not having a lunch break and then working 9 hours anyways.
Not to mention you get less holidays and things like being sick or maternity leave are terrible headaches in comparison.
So all in all, for us at least its been a shock! Ib would be interested to know what metrics they are using for work-life balance, because it likely doesn’t match what I would choose.
Afaik, people don’t live in Luxemburg. The city appears to be busy during the day and almost empty at night since most people working there, actually live abroad in Germany or Belgium.
This picture is not very truthful I believe.
Norway has the coolest country shape though, like a guitarr.
Akshually, it’s a giraffe with a leather jacket and a mohawk.
Yeah! The designer got an award for the shape, especially for the fjords.
Poland seems very off to me, given I always thought it was weird people leaving work at 3pm to get their kids from school. Every single day. And people call it normal.
Also 1 year of maternity leave. Which is incredibly cool.
UK is included but not Switzerland?
Bc Switzerland is worse than Romania
That’s not a reason
Having worked in the Netherlands, UK, and Germany my 2 cents is that this rings untrue to my industry.
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I think some countries are missing here.
I think some countries are missing here.
I’d guess that they’re using Eurostat data, but the UK is present, and they stopped participating in Eurostat when they left the EU. So either it’s not that, or it’s old data.
A bit off-topic, but I kind of wish that the UK and some of the other countries in Europe could participate in some level of voluntary, best-effort participating to share data. Like, okay, if you’re not in the EU, you aren’t bound to use the same statistical standards that EU members are, but I am pretty sure that some countries do or don’t care, and it’s kind of obnoxious that it makes it harder to compare datasets spanning all of Europe.
How is this always a comment? Of course, there are a lot more countries in Europe and the world. I suggest you search for a CSV file and create your own diagram. :)
Or one has to deal with the fact that not every picture includes everything.
Enjoy the data. 🍺
Because you’re biasing the diagram by deliberately excluding data. You could have excluded the best. Or the worst. Or some in between so two look close together but aren’t. Or it could look more uniform than it really is. Excluding data and not being transparent and upfront with is, is skewing things.
Oh god… of course that’s the goal.
The life-work-bias!
Your intention doesn’t really matter because it doesn’t change the fact that the visualization is intransparent.
Something like All european countries with a population > x
Even that isn’t quite it. I mean, Russia’s got the largest population in Europe, and it’s not in there. Turkey is the second-most-populous country with territory in Europe, though the bulk of that is outside Europe. Ukraine’s not in there.
It’s like “some but not all of the EU plus some other countries in Europe, like Serbia and the UK”. They’ve got Estonia and Latvia, but not Lithuania, which isn’t something that I’d expect to see too often.
This is hilarious.
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I’m surprised to see the UK significantly ahead of Sweden.
Spain? Wtf I’m shocked 😮
I have no idea how they measure their work-life balance index, but IIRC Spain still has a limited degree of the siesta showing up in places. Like, my understanding is that your random office in Madrid wouldn’t do it, but in a town back in the backcountry may have businesses that do so.
googles
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siesta
In modern Spain, the midday nap during the working week has largely been abandoned among the adult working population.[16] According to a 2009 survey, 16.2 percent of Spaniards polled claimed to take a nap “daily”, whereas 22 percent did so “sometimes”, 3.2 percent “weekends only” and the remainder, 58.6 percent, “never”. The share of those who claimed to have a nap daily had diminished by 7 percent compared to a previous poll in 1998. Nearly three out of four siesta-takers claimed to take siestas on the sofa rather than the bed.
English-language media often conflates the siesta with the two to three hour lunch break that is characteristic of Spanish working hours,[18] even though the working population is less likely to have time for a siesta and the two events are not necessarily connected. In fact, the average Spaniard works longer hours than almost all their European counterparts (typically 11-hour days, from 9 am to 8 pm).
Huh.
Yeah, It depends on which sector you are focusing.
The office sector normally has an 8-hour workday, from 8am to 5pm with a mandatory hour for lunch or similar. Other offices may have a 7 to 3pm with no time for lunch, like in the Banking or Public sector.
But, in the countryside people that work on farms and greenhouses normally work more than that, although, that is a minimal percentage of the population.
In hot areas of the country, like the south or the spanish plateau is imposible and dangerous to work at midday on open fields, because of UV radiation and high temperatures, so normally they stop working and return home to eat, rest and go back to work later when the UV hazard has decreased. Those people are the ones that tipically have siestas, because of the long hours during the day 7am to 8pm and the physical effort that they need to perform in the workours.
If you’re not working the balance is pretty good /s kind of
I’m from Spain and I don’t get how it’s that high. For my industry it is possibly true but lower paying jobs (which Spain has a lot) are very bad. People working 9 to 20 with a long lunch break is very common and it’s quite a horrible schedule…
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