為何香港人期待颱風之我見|My opinion on why Hong Kong people want typhoon

今天早上看了 @nanosesame 的帖子，文中說香港人太期待颱風，而忘了颱風會帶來很大的災害。這個觀點我基本上是認同的，畢竟天災就是可怕的。但我想在這篇文章裏探討一下為什麼香港人會這麼期待颱風呢? 或者應該更準確的說為什麼香港人會這麼期待颱風帶來的假期呢!

This morning I just read a post wrote by @nanosesame, which is about Hong Kong people want typhoon so much and they forgot how bad the impact a typhoon can bring to the environment. In this post, I would like discuss about why Hong Kong people want typhoon that much. Or I should say it more accurately, why Hong Kong people want the additional holiday bring from typhoon that much.

我個人認為最基本的原因就是：香港工時太長，假期太少。正如我一向的帖子一樣，我相信數據不會騙人，我會提供一些數劇給大家參考一下。

In my personal point of view, the reason is so simple that: Hong Kong have too long working hour, and too little holiday. Just as what I always said, I believe data does not lie. Let me give some data to you guys.

首先說一說工時，根據UBS瑞士銀行在2016年對全球71個城市、15種職業工作時間的調查報告顯示，香港為全球最長工時的城市，每週的工作時間約為50.11小時。大幅領先排名的二跟第三的孟買(43.78小時)跟墨西哥市(43.48小時)大概14%。我放了十大最長每週工時的城市在下面，你可以看得到香港是如何大幅領先第二到第十名的城市。

First, let’s talk about the working hour. According to UBS Swiss, they have performed a research on 71 cities all over the world with 15 job types, to study their working hour. The result shows that Hong Kong have the longest working hour all over the world, which is about 50.11 hours per week, which is greatly above the 2nd and 3rd city, Mumbai with 43.78 and Mexico City with 43.48, around 14%. I have put the top 10 cities below, and you can see that how greatly the different for Hong Kong between the other cities.

排名(Rank)	城市(City)	每週工時(Weekly working hour)
（1）	香港 (Hong Kong)	50.11
（2）	孟買(Mumbai)	43.78
（3）	墨西哥市(Mexico City)	43.48
（4）	新德里(New Delhi)	42.57
（5）	曼谷(Bangkok)	42.13
（6）	杜拜(Dubai	42.03
（7）	內羅畢(Nairobi)	42
（8）	台北(Taipei)	41.17
（9）	雅加達(Jakarta)	40.42
（10）	波哥大(Bogota)	40.30

好了香港人工時這麼長，那他們有比較多的假期去休息了嗎? 香港在2017年的法定假期總共有17天，那到底算多還是少呢?讓我們跟上面排行榜第二跟第三名的城市比較一下。孟買2017年的法定假期總共有25天；而墨西哥市是14天。所以，香港比第三名的墨西哥市多了3天，但比第二名的孟買少了8天。

And alright, Hong Kong people have such a long working hour, do they have more public holiday to get some rest? In Hong Kong, the official public holiday is 17 days in 2017. Is it a big or small number? Let’s compare to the 2nd and 3rd city on the above list. For Mumbai, they got 25 days in 2017; Mexico City got 14 days.

所以，讓我們用簡單的數學來算一算吧。假設一年有52週，而我們把一週的工時除以5天來當作一天法定假期的補償。我們得出以下

And let’s have a simple maths. Assume we have 52 weeks a year, and we divide the weekly working hours by 5 as a compensation for 1 public holiday.

城市(City)	每週工時(Weekly working hour)	假期補償(Holiday Compensation)	每年工時(Net working hour per year)
香港(Hong Kong)	50.11 x 52 = 2605.72	50.11 ÷ 5 x 17 = 170.374	2435.35
孟買(Mumbai)	43.78 x 52 = 2276.56	43.78 ÷ 5 x 25 = 218.9	2057.66
墨西哥(Mexico City)	43.48 x 52 = 2260.96	43.48 ÷ 5 x 14 = 121.74	2139.22

香港人每年可是比第二、三名的城市多工作三百多個小時。所以你說，他們怎麼可能不期望有額外的假期呢?無論是天災也好，人禍也好，我相信只要是假期，香港人都是歡迎的。

As you can see, Hong Kong people have around 300 more working hours than the 2nd and 3rd city. So, how can they don’t want an additional holiday? No matter it is natural or man-made, I bet whenever it is a holiday, it would be welcomed by Hong Kong people.

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