September 13, 2006

Would that be work to live, or live to work?

Who is more efficient, the Americans or the French? Obviously, it must be the Americans. They spend more time at work than the citizens of any other industrial country. But hang on. The average employee in France spends less time on the job than workers in any other country in the industrialized world. But it turns out that for every hour spent working, the French produce slightly more value-added than the Americans. So the French work less, but they work more productively. >by Jim Stanford >rabble news