Countries with a long average working time are more economically successful than those countries which do not have a long working time. To what extent do you agree or disagree?

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Some workers believe that the more
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you
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, the more success you achieve. That’s why many people agree that countries with a long average working
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are more successful than those countries which has less working
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. In my opinion, I entirely disagree with
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statement and believe that it is not good to
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too much. It is the fact that spending more
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working does not mean you will earn more money. As far as I know, Korea and Mexico are listed in top 5 countries having the longest working
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. Both the Mexican and the Korean
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about 10 hours per day. And these countries are
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still not listed
in
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the top
5 most developed countries. Meanwhile, Denmark, Germany or other
Europe
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European
countries are recognized as the most developed countries with the developed economy. There is an interesting fact that the German
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only works
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roughly 4 to 5 hours per day, which is half as much
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as the Korean works. So, it is obvious that the importance is the productivity, not the length of working
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. Workers in Europe know how to use technology
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in
their jobs to increase the capacity,
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, they easily earn a huge amount of money and live happily.
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, working too much causes many dangerous diseases
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as stress, headache or heart attack. In Japan, there is a word called “
karoshi
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Karoshi
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,
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refers to overworked people died because of working pressure. The Japanese not only do full-
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job but
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job, but
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do part-
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jobs at midnight. They are having lack of relaxing
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,
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, they get some dangerous diseases and even lead to death. But the economy is not as strong as European countries. In conclusion, working too much is not good for employees at all. We have to manipulate technological devices to
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, by that way, people will get enough money to live happily.

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Topic Vocabulary:
  • economic success
  • working hours
  • productivity
  • sustainable development
  • work-life balance
  • labor laws
  • efficiency
  • gross domestic product (GDP)
  • burnout
  • occupational health
  • technological innovation
  • industrialized nations
  • emerging economies
  • workforce
  • competitiveness
  • workplace culture
  • employee turnover
  • quality of life
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