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WTS
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Don't ever say Canadians are lazy, we put in more hrs per week and take less holidays than any other country in the industrialized world. And easter isn't a 4 day weekend.
How do you figure we're lazier than Americans?
Not to mention that our economy has been doing better than the US for a number of years.
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Joust
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Glad to see its not just me taking a tad bit of offense by the comments floating around.
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garyfritz
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| Posted: Thu Mar 27, 2008 3:30 am Post subject: |
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| WTS wrote: | Don't ever say Canadians are lazy, we put in more hrs per week and take less holidays than any other country in the industrialized world. And easter isn't a 4 day weekend.
How do you figure we're lazier than Americans? |
I wouldn't say you're lazy, but I don't agree with the "more hrs per week" comment. According to Statistics Canada, workers in the US were working significantly more hours per week than Canadians: http://www.statcan.ca/Daily/English/030911/d030911b.htm
It roughly translates to about 28 hrs/wk average for the US vs. 26 hrs/wk average for Canada, as of 2000. I imagine those numbers are so low because it includes a lot of part-time workers.
The chart on p. 21 of http://www.statcan.ca/english/research/11F0019MIE/11F0019MIE2003209.pdf indicates the average US worker puts in significantly more hours than workers in Canada, Sweden, the UK, Germany, and France.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Working_time says only workers in Korea, Poland, Mexico, the Czech Republic, Japan, and Greece work more hours than US workers.
So Americans work a lot of hours. Sadly more and more of those hours are service-oriented instead of production-oriented, which is not good for the long-term health of the economy. The idiots in the government also do their share to wreck the economy.
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kal
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| Posted: Thu Mar 27, 2008 3:37 am Post subject: |
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| garyfritz wrote: | | According to Statistics Canada, workers in the US were working significantly more hours per week than Canadians |
Personally I find that to be a good thing. I've worked with a LOT of Americans over the years and frankly, a larger percentage of Americans over Canadians have the "Work to live, not live to work" think backwards. The most important thing to many more Americans vs Canadians (again, just my experience as an IT consultant) is that the number of hours you put in (not necessarily the quality of the work) is very important. People just work themselves to the bone.
Canadians have more of a European attitude towards work. It's there to allow us to live, but we don't live for work. That's just nuts. What's the point of making a lot of money if you have no time to spend it?
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garyfritz
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I don't disagree. My wife and I left corporate jobs 18 years ago and have been self-employed since then -- mostly for the time freedom. Sometimes we work long hours, but more often I work fairly short days and spend time with my kids. I have no desire to slave away at a desk 50-60 hrs/week.
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WTS
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I guess it's that 2hrs less per week that makes us lazy (26-Canada vs 28-USA). Yes those stats are a little old, the last I heard on the news here( a few years ago if I recall) was Canadians were right up there in the most hrs worked catagory. Were we 5th or 8th, I don't recall.
It's probably all those imports we get every year who come here expecting jobs and end up going on welfare which drags our numbers down.
I think someone needs to get off his soapbox and stop thinking the USA is the end all be all in this world.
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