Bangkok ranks as the city with the 5th longest working hours

[snoop1130]

Bangkok ranks as the city with the 5th longest working hours
By Coconuts Bangkok

Bangkokians know that they have a typically low number of vacation days and often complain about being told to do work outside of their job descriptions, Now, there are official statistics to back up the idea that we may be working too much.

Bangkok has the world's 5th longest working week, with an average of more than 42.57 hours, according to the a recent survey conducted by the United Bank of Switzerland.

The survey covered 15 sectors of the workforce in 71 cities. Hong Kong toppied the chart with 50.11 working hours, followed by Mumbai (43.78), Mexico City (43.48) and New Delhi (42.57), China.org.cn reported.

Full Story: http://bangkok.coconuts.co/2016/06/03/bangkok-ranks-city-5th-longest-working-hours

-- Coconuts Bangkok 2016-06-03

[berybert]

42 hours a week of facebook and candy crush, I'll swap.

[DogNo1]

I wonder how that number was calculated. Japan has notoriously working hours and employess are often afraid to take their vacation days. The Japanese work week must certainly be longer than 50 hours.

[MaxLee]

Bangkok has one of the longest commuting hours due to the traffic, almost 4-8 hour per day on the rush week.

[Srikcir]

In terms of labor productivity (gross domestic product normalized to purchasing power parities) Thailand ranks 59th out of 62 countries. India ranked #61, Mexico #49, Hong Kong #23, Japan #21, UK #13, Australia #9, Germany #7 and US #3. Norway was #1.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_%28PPP%29_per_hour_worked

It's not a matter of how long people work but how effectively they work.

[ezzra]

And in the 1000th place for productivity for those long hours......

[mikebell]

In the name of full employment Thai workers do not have enough work to go round. Count how many employees of superstores follow customers around desperate for something to do. If 60% of them were sacked no one would notice.

[alfalfa19]

i've already workd 65 hours this week, and it's only friday night. don't thai people have about 100 holidays per year?

[Jimbo2014]

The old idiom work smarter not longer?? ?

[billd766]

Bangkok has one of the longest commuting hours due to the traffic, almost 4-8 hour per day on the rush week.

When I first came to Bangkok back in 1993 I was working the night shift and even at 5 am the red/white, blue/white and a/c buses were packed solid with commuters at 5 am.

Before the expressway was built I worked at the Amari Airport hotel and left there at 6 am to go back to my hotel on Sukhumvit Soi 11. I had to drop off 2 AIS guys on the Petchburi road first. It would sometimes take us 3 or 4 hours to get to my hotel in time for my dinner of steak etc and a bottle of wine before getting to bed around 11 am and rising about 5 pm for breakfast.

[puukao]

the 5th longest hour?

how long, 64 minutes????

[Thainess]

It's true. Working girls in Bangkok are known to work from 8 p.m. to 6 a.m. every single day of the week. They are the lifeblood of the Thai economy.

[MaxLee]

Getting up 5.30 am or earlier just to start work at 9.00 am every day is really extreme.

[sanukjim]

And most places in Mexico there are about 3 hours a day they are not allowed to count. 5555

[hocuspocus]

In the name of full employment Thai workers do not have enough work to go round. Count how many employees of superstores follow customers around desperate for something to do. If 60% of them were sacked no one would notice.

In Global house last week,over 100 motor cycles parked up (more than 100 employees) and only one on the checkout (make that 90%).

[DogNo1]

At the university where I formerly worked in Tokyo, some professors commuted three hours one-way to work. Some had houses farther away and rented sparse apartments to stay in during the week. I really don't think that the working conditions are worse in Thailand. I'd like to see the whole report.

[banchang]

I don't want to get into a bidding war but my girlfriend works over 120 hours every week as a junior doctor. Quite staggering how she is meant to function and make decisions is beyond me.

[Happy Grumpy]

In the name of full employment Thai workers do not have enough work to go round. Count how many employees of superstores follow customers around desperate for something to do. If 60% of them were sacked no one would notice.

They aren't employees of superstores.

They are employees of various companies that have products for sale there. But get to wear the Superstore uniform. So when they say 'don't have. But this the same, but better', you believe them.

The store saves on salary, the companies pay commission, you get done to your face.

i go around Bkk by bike unless it's directly on the BTS/MRT lines. How people commute in in cars from the outer suburbs everyday is beyond me. 2 hours in, 2 hours out, every day.

nuts.

[bill1369]

The Thai law on working hours defines a workweek as 6-days @ 10-hrs/day with overtime required after the workweek's hours have been exceeded.

My biggest contact with working Thais is in the restaurant industry where the restaurant (typically opens about about 11.00 and closes about 22.00) requires staff to come about an hour before opening to set up; at the end of the workday staff do clean-up before leaving. Thus working about 72-hrs/wk, if working for an employer who gives them 1-day off/wk.