In 2014, the average South Korean worker clocked up 2,124 working hours – the second-highest total among OECD member nations after Mexico and far higher than the average of 1,770 hours.
It's an idea that has the whiff of something old-fashioned about it, like a guildsman working at their craft, rather than an office worker clocking in and out.
By one estimate the average American worker clocks up 40% more hours during his life time than the average person in Germany, France or Italy.The narrowing of the productivity gap between America and the euro area over the past 30 years has not been reflected in a catch-up in the euro area's GDP per person because hours worked have fallen sharply.
It's headquartered in Manila and Whistler, Canada, and, not unlike other services, is offering subscription-based controls for employers to manage worker clock-in and clock-out as well as GPS-based confirmation that the worker isn't fibbing.
As of 2015, the average Japanese worker clocked less time than those in the United States – let alone the global leader of overwork, Mexico, where they toiled for a staggering 2246 hours.
The average worker clocked 40.6 hours per week when Keynes wrote his paper in 1930.
As the name suggests, Timesheets.com provides a place where workers clock in and clock out on a computer to establish a record of their hours.
They are also used in "time and attendance" systems, in which shift workers clock on and off using their handprints preventing time-card fraud through "buddy punching".
The workers clock in 9-5 and their output (widgets, steel, cars) at the end of the day is is measurable, in uniform units.
More than a quarter of UK workers clock up in excess of 48 hours per week, which means many of us don't have much of a life outside of the office - commitments to teams, courses and once-cherished hobbies seem impossible to keep.
For me, though, the most telling stat emerged a few months back, when a survey suggested that 72percentt of British workers clock up ten extra, unpaid hours of labour every week.
