India – ranked seventh among the world’s most hard working nations!

A simple survey conducted by Ipsos Global and Reuters, showed that India is ranked seventh among the world’s most hardworking nations. The ten rankings are: Japan, Australia, South Africa, South Korea, USA, Canada and India, Brazil, Sweden and China. It is found that 58.5% of people take all their allotted holidays, while in Japan only 33% of the employees avail of all their allotted paid holidays.

The sample number for the survey, 13,000 people across various countries is too small to make a judgment of this kind. Important to know is the number of “working” hours in a year. Never-the-less, this is a good attempt. Also it will be much different if one considers Indians working in India or Indians working abroad!