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Working Hard in Asia

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  On this day after Labor Day, how many hours do you plan on working? If you figure it out on an annual basis, employees in most industrialized countries work about 18,000 hours a year. But in some Asian countries, the totals are much higher.

Bill Dorman has been the news director at Hawaiʻi Public Radio since 2011.
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