Cultura de trabalho

Tori in DCJanuary 10, 2011 at 4:54 am

Having worked in a number of countries my conclusion is that everyone works about as hard as everyone else — the difference is the time they spend at the office. American spend forever at the office and have lots of meetings and down time talking about nothing — lots of consensus building. Germans and Dutch keep it short and go home when business is done — very direct and confrontational in the style. The French are similar and their meetings are very structured and authoritarian (they are like stereotyped Germans. Brits are somewhere in between — its seems like nothing is happening but everything is — all signs and understandings. Japanese stay in the office the longest and most of the time nothing seems to be happening — waiting for someone else to make a decision. In the end everyone does the same amount of work. Just how they do it and how long it takes (in uncompensated time) it takes to do it. The French don't work harder than anyone else but the disciple of French business organizations is impressive. Mais