The average German worker gives around 34 hours a week. In Norway and Netherlands, the figures are the same. Nevertheless, these are some of the richest, most new and most flexible economies in the world.
The Economic Cooperation and Development Organization (OECD) data tells an attractive story.
Every minute a German worker spends at work, producing a $ 1.45 value. In France, it is $ 1.39. In America, $ 1.50. And India? $ 0.13 per minute.
This is not a difference created by laziness, so to argue that it is a difference created by inequality, poor infrastructure, lack of training, and a corporate culture that is inspired by sweat on the creation of real skills for their workers.
For example, take Australia. In 2022–23, Australian workers recorded a record growth in the working hours, and not surprisingly for economists, the labor productivity declined by 3.7 percent.
Working more, comes out, only tired people get out fast. This did not make him better in his jobs. Even when we examine the calm revolution in Europe, from Belgium to Iceland, where experiments with four-day work weeks are no longer radical views, but rapid mainstream policy is becoming discussion.
In Britain’s biggest trial of the four-day week, 92 percent of the companies participating decided to make it permanent. The only logical reason to convince this step is that productivity remained the same, and many times, even at the same time the worker improved. Even corporate boardrooms are awakened by this truth.
A report from the McKinse Health Institute estimated that companies investing in employee welfare may unlock $ 11.7 trillion in global economic value.
The global evidence is heavy. Real productivity People do not come from frozen. It comes from unlocking their ability through health, creativity, dignity and balance.
And this increases the uncomfortable question for India: while the world is moving towards working, why our billionaires are still caught in the dreams of the 1980s factory-genre?
Are we only building a nation of burnt, underpaid, overworked souls that shocked under the weight of impossible expectations?
