| Max Muir 2006-03-28, 6:58 pm |
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indiaBPOking wrote:
> http://economictimes.indiatimes.com...how/1464487.cms
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> PRASUN SONWALKAR
>
> IANS[ SUNDAY, MARCH 26, 2006 01:39:03 AM]
> LONDON: Are British workers becoming too lazy to compete with India's
> boom-ing economy? Yes, according to Peter Luff, chairman of the House
> of Commons Trade and Industry Committee
No, according to the facts.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/4263755.stm
Letter: Europe's stereotypes need rethinking
By Thomas Kielinger
=3D I even suspect that British people walk twice as fast as their
=3D German counterparts.
=3D
=3D They speak twice as fast too. And they work twice as hard again
=3D as the Germans.
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British managers
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/4745574.stm
"The union group said its research showed overworked managers could
earn another
=A324,000 per year if they were paid for the overtime they put in. "
"The research suggested workers in other areas such as law, finance and
accountancy also suffered from the long hours culture.
Employees in the UK still work the longest hours in Europe, the
organisation said."
"We are beginning to cut the UK's working hours, but there is still a
long way to go
before the UK gets anywhere near the European average."
British teachers
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/...ion/4738984.stm
"Teachers and lecturers are working on average an extra 11 hours unpaid
every w ,
figures from the government's Labour Force Survey suggest."
British doctors
http://www.hazards.org/workedtodeat...m#hospitalcases
"A BMA survey of almost 11,000 consultants found that 77 per cent
worked
more than 50 hours a w for the NHS, and 46 per cent more than 60
hours a w - well within the karoshi risk zone.
The call came after a coroner has criticised the hours worked by a
paediatric
consultant who was found dead in a toilet at Southampton General
Hospital.
Dr Sid Watkins, who often worked 100 hours a w, died after he
apparently
injected himself with the drug Fentanyl to help him cope with his
workload.
It is not a new problem. In 1994, Hazards highlighted the case of Dr
Alan Massie who dropped dead aged 27 after completing an 86-hour
working
w (Hazards 49).
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All Britons
http://www.hazards.org/workedtodeath/workedtodeath2.htm
Burnout Britain http://www.tuc.org.uk/em_research/tuc-5366-f0.cfm
http://www.hazards.org/workedtodeath/overwork.htm
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