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The 996 working hour system (Chinese: 996工作制) is a work schedule practiced illegally by some companies in China. It derives its name from its requirement that employees work from 9 :00 am to 9 :00 pm, 6 days per week; i.e. 72 hours per week, 12 hours per day.
Here, the working time per worker was around 2,456 hours per year, which is just under 47 hours per week. In Germany, on the other hand, it was just under 1,354 hours per year (26 per week and 3.7 per day), which was the lowest of all the countries studied. [1]
[16] [17] A 2019 survey showed the actual average work time to be about 47 hours, with about 62% reporting actually working more than 40 hours a week. [18] In 2021, the Chinese government announced that it would regulate the 996 working hour system. [19]
[18] [19] For example, in the U.S in the late 19th century it was estimated that the average work week was over 60 hours per week. [20] Today the average hours worked in the U.S. is around 33, [21] with the average man employed full-time for 8.4 hours per work day, and the average woman employed full-time for 7.9 hours per work day. [22]
Are you earning enough to get by or to get ahead? In other words, can you cover your bills and then have money left over to pay for things you want and to save for the future? If you worked a 40 ...
By 2014, the average salaried worker was putting in 49 hours a week with one in four working more than 60 hours. As the gig economy rose, so did the number of hours contract workers were putting in.
BEIJING (Reuters) -Rising unemployment in China is pushing millions of college graduates into a tough bargain, with some forced to accept low-paying work or even subsist on their parents' pensions ...
Country GDP per working hour (2017 US$ PPP) Year Luxembourg 146.1 2023 Ireland 142.5 2023 Norway 92.6 2023 Netherlands 79.8 2023 Denmark 78.2 2023 Switzerland 75.6 ...