Comments on: Whatever happened to the Danish lunch break? http://www.eye-for-image.com/blog/whatever-happened-to-the-danish-lunch-break/ THE blog for copywriters and communicators Thu, 08 Jan 2009 21:18:50 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.5 By: Dan Elloway http://www.eye-for-image.com/blog/whatever-happened-to-the-danish-lunch-break/#comment-93 Dan Elloway Fri, 21 Dec 2007 12:08:05 +0000 http://ready6.dev.visionteam.dk/blog/?p=76#comment-93 Yes - I guess Denmark is a holiday. A few years ago I read a book about the seven deadly sins by Dan Savage http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan_Savage In the chapter on sloth, there were some pretty scary stats - it's old data (from 2001) but I guess it hasn't changed that much - and I'm too lazy to find more up-to-date stats. So here goes: - 20% of American said they never went on vacations (33% had too much work to take time off and 11% were worried that if they took a vacation they'd lose their jobs) - Americans work longer hours than the citizens of any other industrialised nation - The average American works 49.5 weeks a year (3.5 weeks more than the Japanese) - 32% of Americans eat lunch and work simultaneously As I said, those stats are old...but still, Denmark is heaven in comparison! Yes - I guess Denmark is a holiday. A few years ago I read a book about the seven deadly sins by Dan Savage http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan_Savage

In the chapter on sloth, there were some pretty scary stats - it’s old data (from 2001) but I guess it hasn’t changed that much - and I’m too lazy to find more up-to-date stats.

So here goes:

- 20% of American said they never went on vacations (33% had too much work to take time off and 11% were worried that if they took a vacation they’d lose their jobs)
- Americans work longer hours than the citizens of any other industrialised nation
- The average American works 49.5 weeks a year (3.5 weeks more than the Japanese)
- 32% of Americans eat lunch and work simultaneously

As I said, those stats are old…but still, Denmark is heaven in comparison!

]]> By: Anastasya Partan http://www.eye-for-image.com/blog/whatever-happened-to-the-danish-lunch-break/#comment-92 Anastasya Partan Wed, 19 Dec 2007 14:35:14 +0000 http://ready6.dev.visionteam.dk/blog/?p=76#comment-92 Paltry, you say!? Picture yourself at an agency in the U.S. You get to the office, work straight through the day, dropping your sandwich crumbs into your keyboard as you email, talk on the phone, and down a coke at the same time. Then, when you're about to check out at 7:00, your boss stops you in your tracks with a, "And where are YOU going." No question mark there because it's rhetorical. And then you're back at your desk for a bit more face time, with a leftover cookie to drown your sorrows. Denmark is a HOLIDAY! Paltry, you say!? Picture yourself at an agency in the U.S. You get to the office, work straight through the day, dropping your sandwich crumbs into your keyboard as you email, talk on the phone, and down a coke at the same time. Then, when you’re about to check out at 7:00, your boss stops you in your tracks with a, “And where are YOU going.” No question mark there because it’s rhetorical. And then you’re back at your desk for a bit more face time, with a leftover cookie to drown your sorrows.

Denmark is a HOLIDAY!

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