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Re:Why Germans Work Fewer Hours but Produce More: A Study in... by ssivark on Saturday November 15, 2014 @12:29PM (#8612114)
I would like to understand all the nitty-gritty deails behind those numbers.

1. How are work hours measured, do they include overtime, etc.

2. How is "productivity" measured? Eg: if an American company has a factory in China, then are the man-hours in those factories accounted for in a reasonable way, because the profits of those products are probably being counted. Or maybe the measures only calculate the value added by American workers.

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Re:Why Germans Work Fewer Hours but Produce More: A Study in... by justincormack on Saturday November 15, 2014 @02:42PM (#8612442)
Yes it will be value added in the country being measured. But if you get stuff assembled or made to order you are keeping the value added from design etc.
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