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Re:Europe is now a corporate also-ran. Can it recover its fo... by tasogare on Saturday June 12, 2021 @01:29AM (#27481803)
> the low work ethic

Incredible to read this... the top-15 of most productive countries [1] are all European save for the US and Australia, which are populated with a huge population of European descent.

[1] https://time.com/4621185/worker-productivity-countries/

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Re:Europe is now a corporate also-ran. Can it recover its fo... by kmlx on Saturday June 12, 2021 @04:45AM (#27482841)
having lived and worked in Asia, I have to say that table looks weird. i have found no other place in this planet where people work longer and better than certain places in Asia.
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Re:Europe is now a corporate also-ran. Can it recover its fo... by emptyfile on Saturday June 12, 2021 @06:48AM (#27483496)
If they worked "better" then they wouldn't be working longer.

Their French counterparts do the same job in 5 hours instead of 10.

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Re:Europe is now a corporate also-ran. Can it recover its fo... by effie on Saturday June 12, 2021 @06:23AM (#27483359)
The table is not about work ethic, but about how much money is made. The latter is probably correlated with the former, but only partially.
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