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"Americans already put in more hours than workers in any country in the world..."

ORLY?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Working_time#Differences_among_...

"By far, workers in South Korea have the longest work hours among OECD countries. The average South Korean works 2,390 hours each year, according to the OECD. This is over 400 hours longer than the next longest-working country and 34% more hours than the average in the United States."

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Well, but that's per capita. That doesn't say anything about the average hours per worker, because we don't know (or at least I don't know) the relative figures for actual employment.

It says the typical workweek in South Korea is "44 hours or longer", whatever that means.

"Well, but that's per capita. That doesn't say anything about the average hours per worker..."

True, but presumably the author's claim is based on reports such as this one, where the figures are also per capita:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/439595.stm

I can also attest that the Japanese spend in general a lot more hours at work than Americans (although they are, at least in my experience, rather inefficient - socializing tends to be done on the workplace).

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