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[–] [email protected] 51 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

Including both full- and part time work in the same statistic is always iffy IMO, especially if you restrict it to the main job (i.e. people who work several part time jobs might work more overall than full time workers with one job).

On top of that, these numbers should always be taken with a grain of salt due to undocumented overtime.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago (1 children)

undocumented overtime

This speaks to me in American.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Nah, undocumented overtime is a thing in germany, too, for example. Most jobs, especially in smaller businesses have what's called "Vertrauensarbeitszeit"(trust based timekeeping). You don't punch in anywhere, you just show up at the job, and are expected to manage your own time. Studies found that this leads to people working approx. 41-42h/week instead of the contractually agreed-upon 40h/week, with the difference not being paid, since it is undocumented. The EU/ECJ declared this to be a problem and now all businesses have to implement some form of electronic timekeeping.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

It means though that companies can definitely work very well with low hours count.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Why is turkey considered european?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago

And why are Moldova and Belarus not?

(I'll forgive the lack of inclusion of the two countries directly at war. Though they should have at least been mentioned alongside the UK and North Macedonia as data not available.)

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Part of it is in Europe I guess?

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Also technically Turkey is an EU candidate

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accession_of_Turkey_to_the_European_Union

Though they kinda stopped being a real candidate 10+ years ago.

But 20 years ago, Turkey was the most prominent EU candidate and could eventually legitimately join the EU. Greece was one of the biggest proponents of Turkey joining the EU. Turkey was led by a promising young man, a moderate muslim, who could compromise islam with secularism. His name was Erdogan.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)

This seems a rather generous characterisation. He might have been more sensible in his economics earlier on, but he has always been a hardcore Islamist. Before he got into national politics was imprisoned during his term as Istanbul's Mayor for "inciting racial hatred", and his party deregistered for being too extreme in its opposition to secularism.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

Yes but before Erdogan, the military was in charge of Turkey. So saying that the military favoured government didnt approve Erdogan was not proof that Erdogan was an actual radical, maybe it was just internal turkish politics. At least that's how it was perceived by the outsiders.

Turkey had nominally a democracy but if the military didnt approve the elected government, they would just coup it. But since being an actual democracy, with the government in charge of the military, is a requirement for joining the EU, Turkey was forced to become more democratic. Unfortunately the people of Turkey wanted a more islamic and less secular government, so thats what they elected.

Which in turn weakened the military's influence, increased Erdogan's power(since he was the elected leader) and led to the failed coup a decade later. The failed coup changed everything.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago (3 children)

I just love the disrespect against UK.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

It's not disrepect, they just don't cooperate with EU-based statistics organisations.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

We aren't in the EU anymore lmao since 2016

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Not since 2016 but since 2020

Anyway they included Switzerland so it indeed is disrespect (or lack of cooperation)

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 month ago

I think the UK will soon be the most powerful country, followed by a more united America and Europe.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago

There appears to be an inverse relationship between the working week and distance from the Netherlands. Probably average height and love of cycling, too.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

Well... For the countries I know if it's completely wrong.

Mixing part time and full time duration makes NO sense whatsoever.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

No problem, I should also look up how Canada compares 👀

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Around 37 hours per week as listed here

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Canada can into Eastern Europe.

We need to stop copying America’s homework as Denmark is the most developed country in North America.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

We're slowly progressing. The days of copying the USA's homework are behind us. We're somewhere in the middle now.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Unfortunately polarized politicians like Pierre Poilievre is surging in the polls and thanks to first-past-the-post he could win a majority.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Meanwhile in Freedumb land my boss takes the mandatory lunch break (unpaid) and slaps an extra 45 minutes on the "8 hour day" so he doesn't lose any productivity, but we're essentially here for 9 hours not 8... Since it's unpaid and we aren't clocked in by law we do "40" so no overtime but it's really more like 45...

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Got a department of labor in your state?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I do, but not only are most of the laws vague they are also made with these loopholes as a feature not a bug. We get a lunch break and that's all the law cares about. Most companies do this unless you're considered a real human and have a real human job like white collar work. I work in a factory so I'm as human as the scrap metal we toss away daily.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

It's not only in the US. In Spain, my company mandates a minimum of 30 minutes of unpaid break. This is so they can avoid giving you the 15minutes paid break mandated by law (how does it make sense? I don't know). On. 40 hour work week.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

This does not take into account essential summer holidays, where businesses are just closed. Makes some countries average much lower than others shown here.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (2 children)

“Eurostat (2023)” is not a source.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

If you read “Eurostat (2023)”, can you identify the author(s)? Can you tell where (if at all) this was published? Do you know the title of the publication? No. You have to search for all of these things (as you did – thank you) given only two keywords. And if you find something, you can’t be sure if what you found really is the source of this image, or if it’s another edition or if it’s just a different publication which also doesn’t properly cite its own sources.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It is a source. The question is if it's a credible source. I mean, my next door neighbor can be a source.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

If you read “Eurostat (2023)”, can you identify the author(s)? Can you tell where (if at all) this was published? Do you know the title of the publication? No. You have to search for all of these things given only two keywords. And if you find something, you can’t be sure if what you found really is the source of this image, or if it’s another edition or if it’s just a different publication which also doesn’t properly cite its own sources.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

Too bad Montenegro isn’t on here

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Iceland looks wacky on that chart

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago

Did you use something similar to Octave to encode this map of quantum harmonies?