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French workers-world's biggest whiners
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French workers are the world's biggestwhiners, according to a study published Monday which said the Irish complain least about their lot.
Britons come second to their Gallic cousins in the moaning stakes, followed by Sweden, the United States and Australia. Japanese workers have the lowest morale, but don't complain so much.
The lowest levels of whining were found in the Netherlands, Thailand and Ireland, according to the study by the FDS research group.
"It is interesting to note that after France, Britain and Sweden, the world's biggest workplace whiners are Americans, despite their having by far the highest levels of income," said FDS chief Charlotte Cornish.
"Compare them to Thai workers: while real levels of income are more than eight times higher in the States, more workers in the US feel their pay is a problem than in Thailand," she added.
The study, entitled "What Workers Want, A Worldwide Study of Attitudes to Work and Work-Life Balance", draws on data from 14,000 employees in 23 countries.
They were notably asked about their satisfaction with issues including pay levels and their work-life balance, as well as average working hours.
In terms of worker morale, Dutch workers are the happiest, followed by their Thai and Irish counterparts. The lowest morale of all is found in Japan, followed by Germany, said the study.
The study's authors noted that French President-elect Nicolas Sarkozy shouldn't expect things to become happier anytime soon, as he prepares to shake up notoriously strike-prone France.
"The UK and US, with their marked competitive individualism and unequal wealth distribution, both appear towards the top of the world's list of whiniest workers," said Cornish.
"The French come out on top -- it seems unlikely that Nicolas Sarkozy's election and the likely shift to more Anglo-Saxon economic practices will make the workers in France any more happy with their lot," she added.
(AFP)
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據(jù)本周一公布的一項(xiàng)調(diào)查顯示，法國(guó)員工最?lèi)?ài)抱怨，而愛(ài)爾蘭員工抱怨得最少。
英國(guó)人位居法國(guó)之后，排名第二，其后是瑞典、美國(guó)和澳大利亞。日本員工的工作熱情最低，但很少抱怨。
據(jù)FDS調(diào)查集團(tuán)的此項(xiàng)調(diào)查，荷蘭、泰國(guó)和愛(ài)爾蘭的員工最不愛(ài)發(fā)牢騷。
FDS集團(tuán)總裁夏洛特·科尼什說(shuō)：“有趣的是，在法國(guó)、英國(guó)和瑞典之后、抱怨最多的竟然是美國(guó)員工，美國(guó)人的收入水平到目前為止可是全世界最高的。”
她說(shuō)：“將美國(guó)與泰國(guó)做個(gè)比較：美國(guó)員工的實(shí)際收入水平為泰國(guó)的八倍，而美國(guó)越來(lái)越多的工人覺(jué)得他們的工資已是一個(gè)問(wèn)題。”
此項(xiàng)名為“員工想要什么？--工作態(tài)度及工作-生活平衡的全球性調(diào)查”對(duì)23個(gè)國(guó)家的1萬(wàn)4千名雇員進(jìn)行了訪問(wèn)。
調(diào)查涉及的主要問(wèn)題包括對(duì)薪資水平、工作-生活平衡及平均工作時(shí)間等問(wèn)題的滿(mǎn)意度。
此外，據(jù)調(diào)查，荷蘭員工的工作熱情最高，其次是泰國(guó)和愛(ài)爾蘭。工作熱情最低的是日本人，其次是德國(guó)人。
調(diào)查報(bào)告的撰寫(xiě)者指出，法國(guó)剛當(dāng)選的總統(tǒng)尼古拉斯·薩科奇目前正打算好好治理這個(gè)因罷工頻起而聲名狼藉的國(guó)家，但他不能指望一切很快好起來(lái)。
科尼什說(shuō)：“以競(jìng)爭(zhēng)、個(gè)人主義著稱(chēng)和財(cái)富分配不均的英美兩國(guó)竟然名列這一排行榜的前列。”
“而法國(guó)則名列排行之首，看來(lái)薩科奇的當(dāng)選及法國(guó)向自由經(jīng)濟(jì)模式的轉(zhuǎn)型不大可能提升法國(guó)人的工作滿(mǎn)意度。”
（英語(yǔ)點(diǎn)津姍姍編輯）
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