eficiency… siesta at work?

Netherlands, Belgium and Germany, the three countries with the shortest working day, presents the greatest productivity per hour worked, according to IESE-ADECCO that analyzes the labour market of 7 European countries.

Although Spanish workers spend more hours at work than their European neighbours, efficiency obtained per hour worked is shamelessly smaller :(

Gossip with colleagues, surf the Internet, coffee breaks, send emails to family/friends, smoking a cigarette? may waste up to 25% of the working day.

The conclusion is an easy arithmetic function:

less hours = smaller denominator = greater quotient
Take care if you are reading this article at work, maybe you are decreasing your country?s productivity rate; anyway is not my case, as I have never worked a single hour! :)





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