Public Holiday: Opportunities to drink tea

In The Economist recently I saw this interesting presentation on the quantity of Public Holidays and annual leave given to workers in 1 year.  I was wondering which country then would have the most opportunities to relax with an InnOrbit Infusion!

In terms of public holidays most countries get

• 10 or 11 days.  
• UK gets 9 (this year)
• Japan 16.

Annual Leave figures show a different story:

• Europe get between 25 and 30 days
• China get 5 (10 if they have worked more than a decade)
• USA gets an average of 15.

Based on this data The Economist states that the hardest workers are in China and the most slothful are in France.

The most interesting data comes from paid sick leave with both China and Japan not paying their workers if they have a day off sick.  So, China on this data is the hardest working country.

In Roman times one emperor (Claudius) gave 159 public holidays in a year.  Looks like Rome over 2000 years ago was the best place to live for relaxing with a nice cup of InnOrbit infusion!