According to the 2003 World Competitiveness Report produced by the IMD in Switzerland, the average Taiwanese worked 2282 hours per year, the most of any country on Earth. Although the report's figures do not entirely match those of Taiwan's Council of Labor Affairs, they do sound a warning over the levels of overtime in Taiwan.
2003 年瑞士洛桑國際管理學院的「世界競爭力報告」中，台灣一年工時達 2282 小時，是全球工時最長的國家，這份工時報告雖然和我國勞委會的統計有所差距，卻仍凸顯了台灣超時工作的警訊。