Mawaiz Khan Akash
The largest textile factory contributing a large amount of manufacturing to the world situated in China consisting of multistory building with 800 employees. Amazingly the factory owner's including all his staff members, evenly the sweeper of the factory, lives in the same multistory building. They prefer living in the building in order to save time instead of going back to their abode.
According to the factory's owner he did so because it hardly takes 5 to 10 minutes to arrive at their work. He further states that they consume only 10 minutes in visiting and return to our building from work.
Let calculate the working hours between them. The high labour force of multistory building arrives at its work after 5 to 10 minutes of delay but we 2 hours. On daily bases we are 1600 hours back from China high labour force in garment industry.
Now come to our side of the world. Suppose Mr. someone works in a textile factory as a General Manager or as a labour. Let me remind you here that a labour of third world countries seldom gets late. So story is all about senior official staff. Suppose his duty timing is from 9am to 5pm. But he daily gets late at least 2 hours from his appropriate timing. As a matter of fact he, by laying down multi reasons, terms the delay to traffic jam, unofficial preoccupations and so on. Neither he calculates the wasting hours nor does the upper management take a serious notice except Possibly deducting salary.
If you thought that you worked longs hours, consider 39-year lod Lee from South Korea. A civil servant at the ministry of agriculture and fisheries, Lee gets up at 5:30a.m every day, gets dressed and makes a two-hour commute into Seoul to start work at 8:30 a.m. after sitting at a computer for most of the day, Lee typically gets out the door at 9p.m., or even later. By the time he gets home, it's just a matter of jumping in the shower and collapsing into bed, before starting the whole routine all over again, about four hours later. This happens six days a week, and throughout almost all of the year, as Lee gets just three days vacation. (Parmy Olson May 30, 2008).
As a matter of fact Chinese being a respect nation knows how to temporize (zamana sazi karma) and how to get the reputation at world level. The Chinese government stipulates a five-day workweek with no more than 8 hours a day and no more than 44 hours a week in the Labor Law of People's Republic of China.
The regular working time generally is from Monday to Friday, with Saturday and Sunday off. The Chinese people usually work between 08:00 and 18:00 each day, with a lunch break from 12:00 to 14:00. However, local variations may occur due to the time difference or policy in different cities. For instance, the working day in Xinjiang usually starts from 09:00 or 10:00 due to its longitude.
According to Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development, in recent years, the decline in average annual hours of work per person in employment, which can be traced back for over a century, has slowed. In some countries, there has even been an increase in the average annual hours per person employed. In countries where continuing falls can be observed, this can be traced to legal action (for example, France, Japan and Portugal) or to particularly vigorous negotiation between the social partners (for example, Germany and the Netherlands). The United States and Sweden both show an increase in average annual hours, in the first case due partly to an increase in overtime hours, in the second to an increase in the hours worked by part-time workers. For the European countries, the paper shows how the pattern of change in weekly working hours can be linked, inter alia, to the institutional arrangements applying in the different countries.
The working hours of Chinese companies may be from 08:00 to 17:00, 08:30 to 17:30 or 09:00 to 18:00. The official organizations like the government offices usually work from 09:00 to 17:00 with a one-hour siesta, and they do not work on Saturdays and Sundays.
Most OECD countries saw a decline in the proportion working 50 or more hours a week
For instance, if you have some workers who work 7 hour and others who work 8 and the "hours per day" is set to 8 hours, enter a I day task and assigning it to an 8 hour per day worker sill result in a start of 8am and finish of 5pm. But switching the resource to a 7 hour a day weaker will result in the task starting at 8am and ending the following day at 9am, the reason is that a "day" is defined as 8 working hours, whether they are all on the same sunrise-sunset period on not.
In recent years, the decline in average annual hours of work per person in employment, which can be traced back for over a century, has slowed. In some countries, there has even been an increase in the average annual hours per person employed. In countries where continuing falls can be observed, this can be traced to legal action (for example, France, Japan and Portugal) or to particularly vigorous negotiation between the social partners (for example, Germany and the Netherlands). The United States and Sweden both show an increase in average annual hours, in the first case due partly to an increase in overtime hours, in the second to an increase in the hours worked by part-time workers. For the European countries, the paper shows how the pattern of change in weekly working hours can be linked, inter alia, to the institutional arrangements applying in the different countries. (John M. Evans writes Trends in Working Hours in OECD Countries)   mawaiz.khan@businessmonitorpk.com