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  2. List of countries by average annual labor hours - Wikipedia

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    The following list is the average annual hours worked by participants in the labor force of the OECD member states. [2] As of 2022, Colombia, Mexico, and Costa Rica ranked the highest number of hours worked per year. Greece ranked the highest In EU with 1886 average hours per year, while Germany ranked the lowest with 1340 average hours worked ...

  3. Full-time equivalent - Wikipedia

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    Full Time Equivalent equates to the standard 40-hour work week: eight hours per day, five days per week and is the total amount of hours that a single full-time employee has worked over any period. This allows employers to adopt a single metric for comparison with the full-time average.

  4. Working time - Wikipedia

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    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. Today the average hours worked in the U.S. is around 33, 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.

  5. How Many Work Hours Are In A Year? Convert Your Hourly ... - AOL

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    The average American works close to 40 hours per week, and there are 52 weeks in a year. Doing the math tells us that there are 260 work days (52 weeks x 5 days) and 2,080 work hours (52 weeks x ...

  6. Battle of the Atlantic - Wikipedia

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    U-30 sank the ocean liner SS Athenia within hours of the declaration of war—in breach of her orders not to sink passenger ships. The U-boat fleet, which was to dominate so much of the Battle of the Atlantic, was small at the beginning of the war; many of the 57 available U-boats were the small and short-range Type IIs , useful primarily for ...

  7. Working time in the United Kingdom - Wikipedia

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    The WTR 1998 follow the requirements of the Working Time Directive, [1] which allowed an "opt out" from the maximum working week, set at 48 hours. Other reforms have included the 28 holiday minimum per year, 20 minute breaks for each six hours worked, and a maximum average of 8 hours work in a 24-hour period for night-workers (the average is ...

  8. Truck driver - Wikipedia

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    In May 2013, the BLS reported a mean average hourly pay ranging from $12.21 (bottom 10%) to $28.66 per hour (top 10%). In March 2014, Payscale.com published that the entry-level truck driver ranged from $11.82 to $20.22 an hour and the average hourly rate was reported as $15.53 an hour.

  9. Buckminster Fuller - Wikipedia

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    Fuller recalled 1927 as a pivotal year of his life. His daughter Alexandra had died in 1922 of complications from polio and spinal meningitis [17] just before her fourth birthday. [18] Barry Katz, a Stanford University scholar who wrote about Fuller, found signs that around this time in his life Fuller had developed depression and anxiety. [19]