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Germans are also famous for how hard they work, working a grueling 1350 hours per year, compared to freeloading lazy Greeks, who merely work 2000.

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>>torgin+(OP)
It’s about productivity, not about the raw amount of hours.

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>>nsoqm+r8
I remember on reddit this was pointed under some article once, and there was a consensus about how West Europeans are just more productive.

Then 2 weeks later there was an article about how much money do Americans make per hours worked, and everyone was falling over each other pointing out how flawed the methodology was.

>>nsoqm+r8
Germany has a stagnant economy, on the edge of shrinking. It's projected to only have 0.2% growth this year.

>>torgin+(OP)
That's not even 26h /week. All this stat show is that there are probably more jobs in Germany. Need more data to draw any conclusions.

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>>nights+6r
Not according to eurostat:

https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics-explained/index.php...

The theory that Greeks work more hours because less of them work in total doesn't line up with the numbers.

But if we pick Poles instead of Greeks, they have a similar level of employment to Germany while working just as many hours as the Greeks

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>>torgin+H51
thanks. very interesting links. overall it seems the job market in europe keeps improving.