“The US is the most overworked nation in the world.”
Some key points from the article and a link.
American Average Work Hours & Productivity:
At least 134 countries have laws setting the maximum length of the work week; the U.S. does not.
According to BLS time-use surveys, full-time employed females in the U.S. work an average of 8.33 hours per day, while full-time employed males work an average of 9.09 hours per day.
According to OECD stats, U.S. workers work an average of 1,767 hours per year versus an OECD country average of 1,687. This is 435 more hours per year than German workers, 400 more hours per year than United Kingdom (UK) workers, 365 more hours per year than French workers, and 169 more hours per year than Japanese workers. Of all OECD countries, only the workers in Chile, Mexico, Israel, Korea, and Costa Rica average more hours worked per year.
Using data by the U.S. BLS, the productivity per American worker has increased 430% since 1950. One way to look at that is that it should take less than one-quarter the work hours, or 10 hours per week, to afford the same standard of living as a worker in 1950 (or our standard of living should be over 4 times higher). Is that the case? Obviously not. Someone is profiting, it’s just not the average American worker.
American Paid Vacation Time & Sick Time:
There is not a federal law requiring paid sick days in the United States.
The U.S. remains the only industrialized country in the world that has no legally mandated annual leave.
In every industrialized country except Canada and Japan (and the U.S., which averages 13 days/per year), workers get at least 20 paid vacation days, on average. In France and Finland, they get 30 – an entire month off, paid, every year.
Then there’s this depressing graph on average paid vacation time in industrialized countries:
https://20somethingfinance.com/american-hours-worked-productivity-vacation/