11 Countries Where People Work the Least

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2. Germany

A strong foreign community of workers and program from 2009 which allowed companies to cut work weeks for employees instead of firing them are the main reasons of low working hours in Germany. The result was 1,290 of working hours per year. Since then Germans started putting more effort to improve this result. Now, they have 1,388 hours of work a year, which means average work week lasts for 27,75 hours.

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