India among world's 15 most hardworking nations - Rediff.com Business

India among world's 15 most hardworking nations - Rediff.com Business: "Believe it or not, but India has been ranked as one of the most hardworking nations in the world in a survey conducted by Ipsos Global and Reuters late last month.

The survey, in some select nations, used a simple technique to arrive at the result it sought. The survey says that full-time workers in most countries get paid holidays, apart from Sundays and in some cases Saturdays too.

However, since organisations do not force workers to avail of those holidays, many people do not use these vacation days.

So the Ipsos Global and Reuters survey on 13,000 people across various countries checked the likelihood of employees using all their vacation days.

And the results were quite startling. In the United States as many as 57 per cent of those surveyed said that they would use all their vacation days, whereas in China almost 65 per cent said they would use all their paid holidays."