Germans are also famous for how hard they work, working a grueling 1350 hours pe...

nightshift1 · 2025-12-05T17:53:52 1764957232

That's not even 26h /week. All this stat show is that there are probably more jobs in Germany. Need more data to draw any conclusions.

torginus · 2025-12-05T21:02:24 1764968544

Not according to eurostat:

https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics-explained/index.php...

The theory that Greeks work more hours because less of them work in total doesn't line up with the numbers.

But if we pick Poles instead of Greeks, they have a similar level of employment to Germany while working just as many hours as the Greeks

nightshift1 · 2025-12-05T23:11:58 1764976318

thanks. very interesting links. overall it seems the job market in europe keeps improving.

nsoqm · 2025-12-05T16:33:08 1764952388

It’s about productivity, not about the raw amount of hours.

Workaccount2 · 2025-12-05T17:18:16 1764955096

Germany has a stagnant economy, on the edge of shrinking. It's projected to only have 0.2% growth this year.

torginus · 2025-12-05T16:41:22 1764952882

I remember on reddit this was pointed under some article once, and there was a consensus about how West Europeans are just more productive.

Then 2 weeks later there was an article about how much money do Americans make per hours worked, and everyone was falling over each other pointing out how flawed the methodology was.