Work pressure took another life in India! Know in which 10 countries it is easiest to get a job

Smallest Working House: A female employee working in HDFC Bank in Lucknow, the capital of Uttar Pradesh, died due to work pressure. This incident has come to light at a time when a few days ago, a young CA working in ‘Ernst & Young’ (EY) in Pune also died due to work pressure. Both these incidents have once again started a debate about working hours in India. At the same time, a discussion has also started about work life balance. In India, the working hours are 8 to 9 hours. In this way, people work 45 to 48 hours every week. However, in some companies, people have to work even after working hours. Due to this, not only their physical condition is affected, but the employee also becomes mentally weak due to work pressure. However, there are some countries in the world where the work life balance is very good. There people work 30 hours a week or even less.

Where in the world do people work the least?

According to the International Labor Organization report, people work for the least number of hours in a country named Vanuatu, located in the Pacific Ocean. Of all the countries surveyed for preparing the report, Vanuatu has the lowest working hours. Here an employee works only 24.7 hours every week. Only 4 percent of Vanuatu’s population works 49 hours or more in a week.

After Vanuatu, the second largest country in the Pacific Ocean is Kiribati. Here an employee works an average of 27.3 hours per week. Surprisingly, India is not even among the top 20 countries with the shortest working hours. 51 percent of India’s workforce works 49 hours or more per week. Because of this, India ranks second among the countries with the longest working hours in the world.

List of countries with the shortest working hours

• Vanuatu (24.7 hours)
• Kiribati (27.3 hours)
• Micronesia (30.5 hours)
• Rwanda (30.4 hours)
• Somalia (31.5 hours)
• Netherlands (31.6 hours)
• Iraq (31.7 hours)
• Wallis and Futuna Islands-French Territory (31.8 hours)
• Canada (32.1 hours)
• Australia (32.3 hours)
• New Zealand (33.0 h)

Countries with the longest working hours?

Bhutan is the country in the world where 61 percent of the population works 49 hours or more every week. Bangladesh has 47 percent of the population working for such long hours, followed by Pakistan, where this number is 40 percent. The top 10 countries with the longest working hours include Bhutan, India, Bangladesh, Pakistan, where the population works for 12 hours every day.

Even in countries like the United Arab Emirates (UAE), 39 percent of the workforce works 50.9 hours per week. In the African country Lesotho, 36 percent of the workforce works up to 50.4 hours. This shows what the condition of a common employee is like in these countries.