The OECD has been investigating hours worked (paid and unpaid - so including household matters) by country, and Belgian daily Le Soir is rather pleased to report that Belgians work the least - 427 minutes a day, or about 7 hours and seven minutes a day. We rack up 7 hours 53 minutes, but given that shopping is counted as work, and knowing how much some of us like that.....
Anyway, a chart of those countries mentioned in the article:
