Working 9 to 5
As a poll identifies which nation's workforce grafts the hardest, we count down the list along with noting some interesting facts about the world's office habits.
Who do you think will be at number one?
Britons don't feature anywhere in the ten hardest working nations. We are, in fact, some of the laziest workers in Europe, clocking in just 1,673 hours on the job per year. In our defence, a lot of us work unpaid overtime which goes unrecorded.
We Brits are also known for our fable telling prowess, taking 6.7 days off sick a year.
Utilising all the skills of our illustrious literary forefathers such as Dickens, Wilde and Shakespeare, sickie excuses range from ‘dead relatives’ to ‘thinking it was Sunday.’
