Career News: U.N. Study--U.S. Workers Lead World
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U.S. workers top the world s productivity league table, with annual output having risen much faster than in Europe and Japan in recent years, according to a United Nations study published on September 1, 2003--Labor Day in the United States.
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U.S. workers top the world s productivity league table, with annual output having risen much faster than in Europe and Japan in recent years, according to a United Nations study published on September 1, 2003--Labor Day in the United States.
Americans worked on average 1,825 hours in 2002, between 280 and 480 more than people in Norway, France and Belgium. But, they owe this primarily to long weeks and few holidays.
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http://www.msnbc.com/news/959839.asp
Source: "Long weeks, Few Holidays Make Americans Hardest Workers," MSNBC, September 2003.
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