During the German business investigation, we found that the overall economic environment in Europe has not been prosperous in recent years. However, Germany, known as the economic leader of Europe, still has a strong economy.

As we all know, German working hours are very short in the world. The OECD has investigated the working hours of 36 member countries. It can be seen from the ranking list that Germany has become the country with the shortest working hours among all countries with 1371 hours of work per year. In China, the annual working hours are 2112 hours. There is a difference of 741 hours, or 92 days.

Are you surprised to hear about the length of working hours in Germany? However, in 2018, all this has changed again.

According to the financial times, after six rounds of negotiations, Germany's largest industrial trade union, the German metal industry workers, was founded

An agreement will be reached with southwest metal and electrical employers' Association. The two sides agree to give workers a salary increase of 4.3% from April, allow workers to work 28 hours a week from the standard 35 hours, that is, 5.6 hours a day, and reserve the right to return to full-time work.

In Germany, in addition to the 104 Day weekend leave brought about by the five-day working system every week, according to the German Federal leave law, each person is also entitled to paid leave of at least 24 working days (generally more than 30 days) every year, excluding weekends and festivals. In addition to legal holidays, such as new year's day, may day, German unification day, Christmas, Easter, etc., the total number of holidays exceeds 150 days. According to the working system of 5.6 hours a day and the minimum leave standard, the annual working hours of Germans are about 1204 hours.

Let's look at the GDP data of various countries around the world released by the world bank. China has a population of 1.4 billion, with a per capita of 7900 US dollars. China has a population of 80 million, with a per capita of $42000, five times that of China and second only to the United States.

Why is Germany at the bottom of the long working hours and the economy so good? The main reasons are as follows: German working hours can be flexibly arranged, and employees have a great degree of autonomy; Germans concentrate on their work when they work, which is very efficient. When you chat with your colleagues in the company and drink coffee, they are also concentrating on their work; Germans attach great importance to personal life. Once they leave the company, they don't let work occupy their rest time. In the eyes of Germans, overtime is not a manifestation of effort, but a manifestation of low work efficiency.