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Hong Kong Has the Longest Working Week In the World
07/06/2016
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Cities with shortest & longest weekly working hours. Image: telegraph
Hong Kong stands out as a city with longest working hours for a week in a recent survey of 71 cities worldwide.

The survey, conducted by the United Bank of Switzerland (UBS), measures the average annual working hours, including paid vacation and bank holidays, using a basket of 15 professions.

It shows that the average working time of Asian people is longer than that of Europeans.​

​Hong Kong tops all cities with averaging 50.11 working hours per a week. Taipei averages 41 hours, Tokyo 39.5 hours, and Beijing 37.42 hours.
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Global paid leave entitlement. Image: andersonss/telegraph
Paris enjoys the shortest working time of 30.84 hours for a week. Lyon, in central France, follows Paris with an average working week of 31.36 hours. Last year, France considered to make a law to prohibit people from doing work in the evening and on the weekend.​

With regard to paid annual leave, Hong Kong, with an paid annual leave of 17.2 days a year, is also below the global average which is 23 days, according to the survey.

Read article at China.org
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