Expert Market conducted a study comparing working hours and vacation time taken in different global cities. As Business Insider explains,
Using data from Swiss banking group UBS, the site compiled information on the biggest, most important cities globally, taking into account how many hours per week and per year people work as well as how many days holiday they take, before creating the ranking.
They came out with its list of top cities for work-life balance:
Perhaps no surprise that they’re all in Europe, which still has some pretty well-enforced labor laws, and that two cities in France top the list.
The study also generated a handy list of cities where I should be promoting the Rest book and talking about deliberate rest:
Our research investigated the work culture in 71 leading business cities across the globe and revealed that – contrary to myths about the Big Smoke – Londoners enjoy some of the least strenuous working hours, putting in 8% less than the world average.
To me, the most surprising thing here is that Seoul isn’t on the list, given that most studies say Koreans work insane hours for no good reason (2,193 hours in 2014), or Singapore, which averaged 2,389 hours in 2014.
But we have Spanish translations of the book, which overs Mexico City and Bogotá; Chinese, so Hong Kong and Taipei are good; worldwide English distribution, which will help in Mumbai and Nairobi . So that’s a good start. Maybe we’ll find a Thai or Indonesian publisher before long!