Are you thinking about cutting back on hours at work? This list of the Top 10 countries that work the least will provide the perfect place for you to live.  There is a strong correlation between the highest average wage per hour and the nations that work the least.  If an individual works an average of 40 hours per week in a year, the common number used for calculation is 2,080 hours.  So pack up the family and move to one these countries that work the least and cut back at least 400 hours a year.

1.      Germany 

·         Average annual hours per person: 1,330

·         Average working hours per week: 25.6

·         Average wage per hour: $35.33 (7th highest)

·         2011 unemployment rate: 6 percent

 

2.      Netherlands 

·         Average annual hours per person: 1,336

·         Average working hours per week: 25.7

·         Average wage per hour: $42.67 (4th highest)

·         2011 unemployment: 4.4 percent

 

3.      France 

·         Average annual hours per person: 1,392

·         Average working hours per week: 26.8

·         Average wage per hour: $34.26 (8th highest)

·         2011 unemployment rate: 9.3 percent

 

4.      Austria 

·         Average annual hours per person: 1,431

·         Average working hours per week: 27.5

·         Average wage per hour: $36.63 (6th highest)

·         2011 unemployment rate: 4.2 percent

 

5.      Belgium 

·         Average annual hours per person: 1,446

·         Average working hours per week: 27.8

·         Average wage per hour: $38.90 (5th highest)

·         2011 unemployment rate: 7.2 percent

 

6.      Ireland
 Average annual hours per person: 1,469
> Average working hours per week: 28.3
> Average wage per hour: $45.53 (3rd highest)
> 2011 unemployment rate: 14.6%

 

7.      Denmark
> Average annual hours per person: 1,496
> Average working hours per week: 28.8
> Average wage per hour: $48.82 (the highest)
> 2011 unemployment rate: 7.7%

 

8.       Luxembourg
> Average annual hours per person: 1,565
> Average working hours per week: 30.1
> Average wage per hour: $46.78 (2nd highest)
> 2011 unemployment rate: 4.9%

 

9.      Finland
> Average annual hours per person: 1,578
> Average working hours per week: 30.3
> Average wage per hour: $33.63 (9th highest)
> 2011 unemployment rate: 7.9%

 

10.  United Kingdom
> Average annual hours per person: 1,611
> Average working hours per week: 31
> Average wage per hour: $31.27 (11th highest)
> 2011 unemployment rate: 8% 

Check out the full article and list by 24/7 Wall Street - full article

 

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Which business slogan or cliché to you just cringe when someone says it in a business meeting?  Some terms are necessary to summarize the concept or thought but then you have co-workers that will run the term into the ground.  So the next time you are about reel of a significant amount of corporate lingo, check this Top 10 List of over used terms and try to summarize your thoughts a little differently:

Outside the Box (31 percent)
Low-hanging fruit (24 percent)
Synergy (23 percent)
Loop me in (22 percent)
Best of breed (19 percent)
Incentivize (19 percent)
Mission-critical (19 percent)
Bring to the table (18 percent)
Value-add (17 percent)
Elevator pitch (16 percent)

Which corporate cliché is your least favorite?

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Many of spend several hundred grand or more for a house on less than an acre.  Here is a list of the top 10  of the Top 100 largest land owners in the USA.  Some have over a million acres of land.  Some of the land is used for a future space port and some even own an entire island in Hawaii. Where would like to have 100,000+ acres?  Here is the list of the Top 10 of the Top 100 land owners in the USA:

1.       Ted Turner -Started Turner Broadcasting - Over 2 Million acres

2.       John Malone (5^th) – Large ranch in New Mexico – 1.2 Million acres

3.       Pingree Family (8^th) – Conservationists in Maine – 830,000 acres

4.       Jeff Bezos (27^th) – Founder of Amazon, building space port – 290,00 acres

5.       Louis Moore Bacon (40^th) – Hedge fund manager – 202,000 acres

6.       Bass Family (64^th) – Oil & Land – 150,000 acres

7.       Tom Siebel (72^nd) – Founder of Siebel Systems – 135,000 acres

8.       Drummond Family (79^th) – Oklahoma cattle rancher – 119,000 acres

9.       Scharbauer Family (82^nd) – Oil in West Texas – 113,532 acres

10.   Robinson Family (88^th) – Wouldn’t you like to own a Hawaiian island? – 103,000 acres

The majority of us live on just 3% of the land in the USA.  Where would you like to own land?

 

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Did you go see the new Facebook movie or better known as The Social Network this weekend? The new movie pulled in over $23 million this past weekend as many lined up to see how the Facebook empire was built.  Here is the past weekends box office gross of the Top 10 movies:

1.     The Social Network ($23M)

2.     Legend of the Guardians ($10.9M)

3.     Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps ($10.1M)

4.     The Town ($10M)

5.     Easy A ($7M)

6.     You Again ($5.6M)

7.     Case 39 ($5.35M)

8.     Let Me In ($5.3M)

9.     Devil ($3.7M)

10.   Alpha and Omega ($3M)

Which movie do you think is the best?

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Which of these celebrities do you think is the worst business person on this Top 10 list?  Some are even our list of the Top 10 Most Annoying Celebrities.  Stan Lee made the list even though his creation of some of the best comic book movies still tears up the box office.  Check out this list by MSBC and Wallet Pop:

·        Stan Lee – Creator iconic comic book characters

·        Kim Basinger – Famous Actress

·        Heidi Montag – Reality TV

·        Lenny Dykstra – Former MLB baseball player

·        Heidi Flies – The “Hollywood Madam”

·        Suzanne Somers – Thigh Master

·        Jim Bakker – Claimed to be doing God’s work

·        Marion “Suge” Knight – Gangbanging Rap Producer

·        Jim McMahon – Former Chicago Bears QB

·        Paris Hilton – Reality TV

Which of the top 10 Celebrity business owners do think is the worst?

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Which brands hold the most value in dollars and the minds of investors and consumers?  Only one of the top car brands is listed along with a company on the list of best places to work.  Forbes recently ranked the list of the most valuable brands that drive consumers and here is the Top 10 along with the projected value:

1.     Apple - $57.4 billion

2.     Microsoft - $56.6 billion

3.     Coca-Cola - $55.4 billion

4.     IBM - $43 billion

5.     Google - $39.7 billion

6.     McDonalds - $35.9 billion

7.     GE - $33.7 billion

8.     Marlboro - $29.1 billion

9.     Intel - $28.6 billion

10.  Nokia - $27.4 billion

Which of the Top 10 is your favorite to support?

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Relationships make deals happen.  Spending a little time at the right place getting to know someone over lunch at one of the places on this list of Best Places in NYC for a Business Lunch is always a good thing.  NYC has many great restaurants but this will at least provide a few suggestions.  While you are in the Big Apple, here is a list of Best & Top things to do in New York City.  The world's second home awaits.

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