Office conditions in India are getting worse day by day. Indian companies have come second in the world in making employees work harder. Here, making people work more than their capacity has become a habit for companies. A report by the International Labor Organization (ILO) claims that about 51 percent of employees in India work more than 49 hours a week. Due to this India has created an identity among the countries that make employees work harder. The country whose name is at the top in this list may surprise you. Actually, the first name in this list is Butan, whose 61 percent work force works more than 49 hours a week.
Employees working 46.7 hours a week – South Asia
Along with this, according to the same report of ILO, every Indian employee is working 46.7 hours a week. The situation is not much different in our neighboring countries as well. Whether it is Butuan which is at the top of the list where employees work more than 49 hours or Bangladesh and Pakistan which are in the top 10 of the list where 47 and 40 percent people are working more than 49 hours a week. One thing is clear from this that the condition of employees in South Asia is almost the same.
Many countries take care
However, there are many countries in the world which give a lot of importance to work life balance. Like Netherlands and Norway. In these countries, special care is taken of the employees. In Netherlands, employees work only 31.6 hours a week and in Norway 33.7 hours. Whereas in Germany 34.2 hours, in Japan 36.6 hours and in Singapore 42.6 hours of work is being done. According to this list, the country which takes the most care of the work life balance of its employees is Vanuatu. Here only 4 percent people work more than 49 hours a week. Whereas the rest of the employees work only 24.7 hours a week. Similarly, employees work only 27.3 hours a week in Kiribati and 30.4 hours a week in the Federated States of Micronesia.
26 year woman dies due to overwork
Recently, the case of the death of Anna Sebastian, a 26-year-old employee working for Ernst & Young India in India, due to overwork has become a topic of discussion. On this, Union Labor Minister Shobha Karandlaje has also started an investigation into the matter.
