Trond-Morten Lindberg in auditing and consulting firm BDO dealer in Thursday’s edition of Dagens Næringsliv out against “Norwegian laziness” in the workplace.
– There is a sedate one looks more in Norway than elsewhere. When some businesses move “Friday Cake» Thursday that as many as possible to be present, it says the seating. I must say I get annoyed when I see that it is queued to the mountain Thursday, says Lindberg said.
In the afternoon he asked for a debate which you can see here.
However, Norwegians really so lazy? Here are five graphs that can take us a little closer to the answer.
1. The proportion Norwegians job is world leader
This is a statistic we get on well. Only Iceland and Switzerland have a higher proportion of the population between 15 and 64 years at work.
At the bottom?
Turkey and Greece where about half are unemployed.
2. Norwegians are working fewer hours than the average
Only the Germans and Dutch use according to OECD fewer hours than us at work, while the Greeks are those who are the most hours in the office.
The incision in OECD 1770 hours each year, which is significantly above Norway in 1408.
3. We are productive (especially when oil prices are high)
OECD figures from 2005 indicate that Norwegians are among the most productive in the world, measured as value created per hour worked. But numbers can lie.
Here are also all oil revenues counted, which for example means that productivity increases with higher oil prices. But one gets the not twice as effective a doubled oil prices.
As a measure of our effectiveness in isolation, this is thus at best somewhat inaccurate.
More relevant is perhaps to look at the growth in productivity. This has been significantly lower in the last ten years than the previous ten. Other countries have the same tendency as Norway, but not all to the same extent.
4. Friday is more leisure, especially for men
– I must say I get annoyed when I see that it is queued to the mountain Thursday, says Trond-Morten Lindberg BDO, and believe it is a problem that Norwegians want to get to so much free time.
And yes – we’ll increasingly free on Fridays than before. And especially men. It displays Time use survey by Statistics Norway from 2012. They have measured time spent on inntekstarbeid in the decade 2000-2010. They show that fewer are at work Fridays than before, and that in addition was less time at work in 2010 than in 2000.
The pattern is evident for men.
The proportion of men (among all between 16-74 years) who work Fridays, has declined from 66 percent in 2000 to 56 per cent ten years later.
Among men who have worked on Fridays, is working time 40 minutes shorter in 2010 than in 2000, and is then cut in eight hours and 20 minutes. And much of the released currently being used for recreational activities.
And those traveling in the cabin a Friday, using up to four hours more at the cottage or country house that day than in 2000.
The rest of the week, Monday through Thursday, working men almost as much as ten years ago, and the proportion who are on the job, is unchanged.
5. Task-driven work = more overtime
YS Working Barometer shows that the average weekly working time varies greatly with the extent one has clocked hours – ie workday largely finished after a certain number of hours.
Do you clocked , at fixed times, the average weekly working 35.83 hours.
For comparison, average 45.94 hours for those who have the task directed work, where the working day very little is done after a certain number of hours
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