world's "hardest workers"

According to Forbes, Koreans are the hardest-working people in the world as they put in 2,357 hours of work a year. But from my experience, I don't think Koreans are necessarily the hardest-working. (Though I have met a lot of Koreans who do work very hard!) They're just AT work a lot. Much of time is wasted because people are expected to all come and leave at the same time even if they don't have to be there. For instance, I have to come into work at 1:30 but I don't start teaching until 3:15. I come in at 1:30 because other teachers start at that time. Lots of time wasted, I would say.

Greece comes in at second with 2,052 hours a year, then the Czech Republic, Hungary, and Poland. The Netherlands is at the bottom with only 1,391 hours a year. After living and working in Korea, the Netherlands sound very appealing.