Why Denmark has the best work-life balance in the world and how our expat
   Work life balance
   Denmark knows the importance of work-life balance
   With a working day typically ending at 4pm and overtime frowned on as
   an indicator of inefficiency, Denmark has the best work-life balance in
   job in 2013. Working from home as a freelance journalist, I’d just
   "Working from home as a freelance journalist, I’d just about had time
   Less work, more Danish pastries, seems like a good deal  Photo: Alamy
   The official working week in Denmark is 37 hours – far fewer than the
   study showed that the average Dane only works 33 hours a week. Denmark
   also comes top of the world in terms of worker motivation and has the
   happiest workforce in the EU.
   then I discovered that workers are 12 per cent more productive when
   for work and ‘glæde’ - the word for happiness. It literally means
   ‘happiness at work’.” The word exists exclusively in Nordic languages,
   work, so Danes make this a priority,” is how he puts it, through a
   work done and go home.”
   “It’s like there’s an expectation that you’ll be happy at work, so
   your work done and go home.”
   there’s still workplace stress and even high levels of antidepressant
   short working week, you can have a life and get on in life.
   around. As a freelancer with no clear demarcation of working hours or
   Work-life balance: one. Presenteeism: nil.
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