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Spain? Wtf I’m shocked 😮
If you’re not working the balance is pretty good /s kind of
Afaik, people don’t live in Luxemburg. The city appears to be busy during the day and almost empty at night since most people working there, actually live abroad in Germany or Belgium.
The UK being that high makes me feel very sorry for everyone in the countries ranked lower
Yeah, we moved from Germany to the UK a year or so ago and are about to move back pretty much specifically because of this.
Maybe it’s just London, but here there is a really prevalent “hustle culture” and everyone is doing things like joining work calls during their holidays or not having a lunch break and then working 9 hours anyways.
Not to mention you get less holidays and things like being sick or maternity leave are terrible headaches in comparison.
So all in all, for us at least its been a shock! Ib would be interested to know what metrics they are using for work-life balance, because it likely doesn’t match what I would choose.
How is work-life balance measured? Is this self-reported data? What does the percentage mean?
From their website:
“”" Life-work balance is an evolving definition, describing how we juggle our personal lives alongside the demands of our careers. Remote has coined the term to describe the increasing trend of people putting life first and work second.
Strong life-work balance extends beyond the ability to work from home. Measuring life-work balance with accuracy considers a number of the most important impacting factors ranging from payment rate to inclusivity. Putting Europe to the test, we conducted an index data analysis to reveal the top countries to live and work across the old continent. Would you consider a move abroad in search of a greater balance between your personal life and career?
The European Life-Work Balance Index assesses focuses on the countries situated in Europe, ranking the quality of life-work balance across each nation. The index considers a variety of vital factors including:
Healthcare Minimum wage Maternity leave Statutory annual leave Sick pay Overall happiness levels Average working hours LGBTQ+ inclusivity“”"
Kind of arbitrary set of data to be calling a work life balance index, but what do I know…
Having looked at this, they have a few things that aren’t quite right. But that’s not surprising given how tough it is to compare countries that define things differently.
I’ve only lived recently in Germany and the UK, so I can speak for those, but for example the “maternity” comparison is very skewed because of the (admittedly confusing) way that Germany defines “paid time with your child after they are born”. There are basically two phases to it, with different names and conditions. The first is the 14 weeks of 100% pay which is listed on the website, but afterwards there is what’s called Elternzeit (“parents time”) which is partially paid (starts at 65% if I remember right) and is at least 14 months, but can be extended with slightly different conditions.
So the vast majority of the benefit is not being included in this comparison.
My German roomie would get a kick out of Sweden and Germany being side by side. Anecdotal of course but I don’t think he’d agree.
For starters, he hasn’t been almost killed at his job here in Sweden, even though truck driver is probably a more dangerous job than his old office job. No flying saw blades here.
Germans are notoriously grumpy so we’ll always be at the bottom at anything that tries to measure happiness.
To be fair though, Germany seems like a miserable place to work. Outdated tech, weird social hierarchies, expected overtime, free labour by exploiting students.
The only time i ever got overtime back as holiday leave was in Germany. That was great!
I think I had something stupid like 43 days off that year (including the base 6-weeks)
Your experience in Germany doesn’t really seem typical. And social hierarchies will appear weird in any foreign country.
He’s definitely right about the overtime and students.
Anywhere that has a union is not expecting overtime. In fact it is counted and you can take the time off that you accumulated.
- Google the source
- click at the first finding
- scroll down to Methodology
https://remote.com/resources/research/european-life-work-balance-index
Edit:
What indicators would be better suiting? Working hours and work-life balance sounds quite suiting.
This picture is not very truthful I believe.
Norway has the coolest country shape though, like a guitarr.
Yeah! The designer got an award for the shape, especially for the fjords.
I think some countries are missing here.
How is this always a comment? Of course, there are a lot more countries in Europe and the world. I suggest you search for a CSV file and create your own diagram. :)
Or one has to deal with the fact that not every picture includes everything.
Enjoy the data. 🍺
Because you’re biasing the diagram by deliberately excluding data. You could have excluded the best. Or the worst. Or some in between so two look close together but aren’t. Or it could look more uniform than it really is. Excluding data and not being transparent and upfront with is, is skewing things.
Oh god… of course that’s the goal.
The life-work-bias!
Your intention doesn’t really matter because it doesn’t change the fact that the visualization is intransparent.
It’s not even all EU members.
Just state what you are showing. That’s all we’re asking.
Something like All european countries with a population > x
This is hilarious.
Having worked in the Netherlands, UK, and Germany my 2 cents is that this rings untrue to my industry.
but did you work in any of the bottom range countries? to compare
Italy and Ireland. However the point I fluffed making is that W/L Balance in the UK is much lower.
I can confirm this. I worked in England, Italy, Switzerland and Germany (Operations/Logistics) and I refuse to believe that England/UK is that high up. Italys placement I do believe however.
Hey?! Where’s Merica? Freedom land with the 2nd most incarcerated
Did they somehow manage to join europe or do i miss something here?
I mean oil has already been discovered in Europe, so the possibility is pretty high.
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UK is included but not Switzerland?
Bc Switzerland is worse than Romania
That’s not a reason
