Rediff's top hardworking nations list

[below_freezing]

If we measured by time spent instead of vacation days, China would be hardest working. Some of us work 60 hours per week, or 3000 hours per year.

 

[KS]

If we measured by time spent instead of vacation days, China would be hardest working. Some of us work 60 hours per week, or 3000 hours per year.

Bah ! Any software techie in India can easily beat that.

 

[Tractor]

Probably no meaning,working time for private things like some PDFmembers including me.Just enjoy it,no hard working for most people in any countries and no need to be like that indeed.

 

[Ahmad]

Too much work and little rest,,, or too much rest and little work, both of them are not good. keep it in the middle.

 

[Bigoren]

SHOCKED LIST!!!Who make this list??

 

[killeragent]

Our beloved Benny..AKA SpArk proves this list right.

DONT YOU GUYS SEE HIS HARDWORK on PDF..
Just 8 months and 10,000 Posts...

5 year old poster Jana ji is scared

 

[Water Car Engineer]

China in 10th? Look what it has done in the last 30 years. Thats something India is trying to do know! And most Chinese people are not lazy either.

Australia beat Asian countries like S. Korea!?

 

[Dalai Lama]

The common Indian works very hard, no doubt about it. Don't really trust the list very much though. How exactly do you measure something like this.

 

[Nair saab]

The news is a totally false ...although from last 10 years Indian people have started working hard due to huge competition in private sector...

We definitely may come in top 20...this is due to certain government ruled state especially people from two communist ruled states kerala & w.bengal are very lazy due to various trade unions... but the same people go in foreign countries & are know for there harding working nature...

If we consider the Indians working in foreign countries only then we should atleast get a no.2 ... dont believe me u know BENNY!!!

 

[RollingStones]

I am not sure why Indians put themselves down so much. The reason Indians' hard work doesn't get translated to dollars is because of government policies such as taking too long to settle contractual disputes, black money, very high interest rates, inefficient real estate system where a lot of wealth is locked up and is probably not getting released, and lack of modern lending products, such as cheap home equity lines that release wealth from homes and allows people to buy other lifestyle products or start a business. Interest rates have to be around 4 or 5% to start businesses but in India I find that the rates are too high. Using real estate to create additional wealth is the way to go. Also, Indians need to invest in technology and learning rather than in Gold so much and exhibiting garish weddings. Finally, efficient tax collection and utilization is required as well. I see this in a lot of developing countries but I see this in India a lot. Your central bank is being way too conservative and needs to open up the currency and let it appreciate to a much higher amount so the oil import prices are lower. I read the WSJ section on India and China and I find the above on India to be not so good about India. Keeping currency artificially low and relying on an export driven market is not good for India. Dont go the China way here. It wont work for India. That business model is passe'. India should float the currency and let it appreciate so the oil bill is a lot cheaper and Indians in India can live better due to lower energy prices.

 

[StingRoy]

On second thoughts I have doubts on this - where are the Germans ?

Germans don't work too hard ... their machines do

 

[xMustiiej70]

probally the most bulshittest list ever..
Where the hell is Turkey?
We've been fighting wars against worldpowers for the past 1000years.
We've been through 16major empires turkic empires..
india top 7?
please.. show us where india is working hard on..
their economy might be growing fast.. but still its getting worse and worse..
the economic grow rate cannot upkeep the grow rate of population.
1billion indians.. how could they ever get almost captured by other empires...
how could they get in the hands of the british empire..
seriously how..
I complete disagree with this bullshit.

 

[Water Car Engineer]

^^^^

Why are you ranting for?? British empire has nothing to do with this.

Why claiming all 16 major Turkic empires? No Russian will claim major indo-European empires, because of similarities between each others language.. Or Japanese claim Korean empires, because similarities in their language too.

 

[StingRoy]

Don't take this too seriously guys. The survey was conducted in some selected nations only.

I read from another blog about their methodology... read below:

They used a simple technique to arrive at the result. The survey says that full-time workers in most countries get paid holidays, apart from Sundays and in some cases Saturdays too. However, since organizations do not force workers to avail of those holidays, many people do not use these vacation days. So the Ipsos Global and Reuters survey on 13,000 people across various countries checked the likelihood of employees using all their vacation days. And the results were quite startling. In the United States as many as 57 per cent of those surveyed said that they would use all their vacation days, whereas in China almost 65 per cent said they would use all their paid holidays.

 

[xMustiiej70]

and this subject is another stupid tittle.. posted by some bullshit blogger or whatever the source is.