Work-life balance: Who does it best?That was the question Paris-based Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) attempted to answer.
The OECD looked at data from 34 countries, assessing work-life balance in their well-being index, the Better Life Initiative. For the study, the balance was determined by three indicators: time devoted to personal activities, employment rate of women with children between the ages of 6 and 14, and the number of employees working over 50 hours a week.
Belgians topped the "personal time" category, with an impressive 16.61 hours a day of time off. (Canadians have 14.97 hours outside of work, which is still lower than the OECD average.)
Northern European countries proved least likely to overwhelm with overtime. Both the Netherlands and Sweden have only 0.001 per cent of their populations working over 50 hours a week on a regular basis.
Tuesday, June 7, 2011
Europe leads the world in work-life balance
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