French workers-world's biggest whiners French workers are the world's biggest whiners, 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)

據本周一公布的一項調查顯示，法國員工最愛抱怨，而愛爾蘭員工抱怨得最少。 英國人位居法國之后，排名第二，其后是瑞典、美國和澳大利亞。日本員工的工作熱情最低，但很少抱怨。 據FDS調查集團的此項調查，荷蘭、泰國和愛爾蘭的員工最不愛發牢騷。 FDS集團總裁夏洛特·科尼什說：“有趣的是，在法國、英國和瑞典之后、抱怨最多的竟然是美國員工，美國人的收入水平到目前為止可是全世界最高的。” 她說：“將美國與泰國做個比較：美國員工的實際收入水平為泰國的八倍，而美國越來越多的工人覺得他們的工資已是一個問題。” 此項名為“員工想要什么？--工作態度及工作-生活平衡的全球性調查”對23個國家的1萬4千名雇員進行了訪問。 調查涉及的主要問題包括對薪資水平、工作-生活平衡及平均工作時間等問題的滿意度。 此外，據調查，荷蘭員工的工作熱情最高，其次是泰國和愛爾蘭。工作熱情最低的是日本人，其次是德國人。 調查報告的撰寫者指出，法國剛當選的總統尼古拉斯·薩科奇目前正打算好好治理這個因罷工頻起而聲名狼藉的國家，但他不能指望一切很快好起來。 科尼什說：“以競爭、個人主義著稱和財富分配不均的英美兩國竟然名列這一排行榜的前列。” “而法國則名列排行之首，看來薩科奇的當選及法國向自由經濟模式的轉型不大可能提升法國人的工作滿意度。” （英語點津姍姍編輯）