Work
Working from there
Can I actually do my job from there?
Timezone overlap, shared working days, working hours and leave, measured connection quality, digital government and the nearest cloud region.
Tools in this section
Team Timezone Friction Scorer
Score a distributed team's timezone overlap (0–100), find the golden-hour everyone shares, and flag the isolated 'lone wolf'.
GET /api/meeting.json
Cloud Region Selector
Pick the cloud region that minimizes latency for your real user base — and see whether a multi-region split pays off.
GET /api/region.json
Shared Working Days
Weekdays a distributed team is genuinely all at work — public holidays joined across countries — plus countries ranked by holidays.
GET /api/holidays.json
Internet Quality Ranking
Measured latency, jitter and speed by country from Cloudflare Radar — whether you can actually take the call.
GET /api/connectivity.json
Team Calendar
When a multi-country team can actually all work: shared working days joined to daily timezone overlap, as hours per year.
GET /api/team-calendar.json
Working Hours & Parental Leave
Hours actually worked per week and per year, and the paid leave the law gives mothers and fathers — measured, by country.
GET /api/working-time.json
Digital Government
The UN E-Government Development Index and its online-service, infrastructure and human-capital parts — how much of government can be done online.
GET /api/egov.json
Every figure here is computed, not collected
Nothing on this site is a crowdsourced estimate or an editorial top ten. Each tool runs a published dataset — World Bank, IMF, OECD, Eurostat, WHO, HUD — through an engine you can call yourself, and every JSON response carries a citation naming the source and the year it refers to. Where a figure is modelled rather than measured, the page says so.
Each tool above has a free JSON API and an MCP tool, listed on the card. See how it works or the ranked answers if you would rather start from a shortlist than a calculator.
Not sure which tool to start with? Ask the adviser what matters to you (Pro), and it will work through these figures for you.
Other questions
- Compare countries — What is my money actually worth there?
- What a month costs — What does living there actually cost?
- Earning and staying — What should I charge, and how long does my money last?
- Where to go, and whether you can — Where should I go — and am I allowed to?
- Will my money work there — Will my money work there?
- What must I comply with — What must I comply with?
- Is it safe, and what do I need before I go — Is it safe, and what do I need before I go?
- Can I afford to retire there — Can I afford to retire there?
- Can I run a business there — Can I run a business there?
Days you are both actually working
Timezone overlap tells you which hours you share. This tells you which days — weekdays when neither side is on a public holiday. Holidays falling at a weekend are ignored, because they cost nobody a working day.
241 shared working days in 2026, out of 261 weekdays.
20 weekdays lost because one side is off: United Kingdom 5, Japan 16 .
Nationwide public holidays only — regional days (Germany's Länder, Spain's comunidades) are excluded, since they are not observed countrywide. Source: Nager.Date, updated 2026-09-07. No calendar published for Azerbaijan, Bhutan, Brunei, Fiji, India, Iran, Israel, Jordan, Kuwait, Kyrgyzstan, Laos, Lebanon, Malaysia, Maldives, Mauritius, Myanmar, Nepal, Oman, Pakistan, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Sri Lanka, Tajikistan, Thailand, United Arab Emirates, Uzbekistan. JSON
When can the whole team actually work?
Timezone tools give you the hours you share; holiday calendars give you the days. This joins the two: the weekdays nobody is off, times the hours everyone is at their desk, as shared working hours a year. Overlap is checked in January and July, so daylight saving cannot flatter a team that only lines up for half the year.
735 shared working hours in 2026 — 245 shared days of 261 weekdays, and 3 h a day when everyone is at work.
| Season | Shared window (UTC) | Hours / day | Friction |
|---|---|---|---|
| winter (2026-01-15) | 14:00–17:00 | 3 | 76 · Manageable · lone wolf: New York |
| summer (2026-07-15) | 13:00–16:00 | 3 | 76 · Manageable · lone wolf: New York |
🇬🇧 United Kingdom (London) 5 holidays · 🇩🇪 Germany (Berlin) 7 holidays · 🇺🇸 United States (New York, several zones) 10 holidays
Each country is placed in the time zone of its representative city; the US, Canada, Brazil,
Mexico, Australia and Indonesia span several, and the API takes an explicit zone
(US@America/Chicago). Nationwide public holidays only; annual leave is not
modelled. Sources: Nager.Date and the IANA time zone database, reviewed 2026-09-07.
No calendar published for Azerbaijan, Bhutan, Brunei, Fiji, India, Iran, Israel, Jordan, Kuwait, Kyrgyzstan, Laos, Lebanon, Malaysia, Maldives, Mauritius, Myanmar, Nepal, Oman, Pakistan, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Sri Lanka, Tajikistan, Thailand, United Arab Emirates, Uzbekistan.
JSON
How long is the working week, and what leave does the law give?
Hours actually worked, measured by labour-force surveys rather than quoted from contracts, and the paid leave a mother or father is legally entitled to. Two things nobody puts beside a salary, and both change what a job is worth.
| Country | Hours / week | Hours / year (OECD) | Maternity leave | Paternity leave | Who pays |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 🇩🇪 Germany | 33.5 (2025) | 1,332 | 458 days | 60 days | Government |
| 🇺🇸 United States | 37.5 (2025) | 1,800 | 84 days | 84 days | — |
| 🇹🇭 Thailand | 42.4 (2025) | — | 90 days | 0 days | Employer and Government |
- Weekly hours are hours ACTUALLY worked per employed person, averaged over full- and part-time workers alike — a low figure can mean a large part-time share as much as a short full-time week.
- Leave figures are what the law provides (Women, Business and the Law), not what is taken; a legal score below 1 marks a partial provision. Statutory minimum annual leave is not in this dataset; it is hand-curated separately (employment_rules).
- OECD: the data are intended for comparisons of trends over time; they are unsuitable for comparisons of the level of average annual hours of work for a given year, because of differences in their sources and method of calculation.
Shortest working weeks
- 🇳🇱 Netherlands 31 h
- 🇩🇰 Denmark 33.2 h
- 🇳🇴 Norway 33.4 h
- 🇩🇪 Germany 33.5 h
- 🇳🇬 Nigeria 33.5 h
- 🇮🇪 Ireland 34.7 h
- 🇨🇦 Canada 34.8 h
- 🇸🇪 Sweden 34.8 h
Weekly hours: ILOSTAT, mean hours actually worked in the main job, all employed persons (part-time included). Annual hours: OECD — OECD: the data are intended for comparisons of trends over time; they are unsuitable for comparisons of the level of average annual hours of work for a given year, because of differences in their sources and method of calculation. Leave: World Bank Women, Business and the Law 2026, what the law provides in calendar days; statutory minimum annual leave is curated separately on the Rules hub's employment tab. Refreshed 2026-09-04. No ILO weekly-hours series since 2023 for Albania, Algeria, Andorra, Angola, Antigua and Barbuda, Armenia, Australia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Bahamas, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Barbados, Belarus, Belgium, Belize, Benin, Bhutan, Bolivia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Botswana, Brunei, Bulgaria, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cabo Verde, Cambodia, Cameroon, Central African Republic, China, Costa Rica, Croatia, Cyprus, DR Congo, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Estonia, Eswatini, Ethiopia, Fiji, Finland, Gabon, Gambia, Georgia, Ghana, Grenada, Guatemala, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Iceland, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Ivory Coast, Jamaica, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Kuwait, Kyrgyzstan, Laos, Latvia, Lebanon, Lesotho, Liberia, Libya, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Madagascar, Malawi, Malaysia, Maldives, Mali, Malta, Mauritania, Mauritius, Micronesia, Moldova, Mongolia, Montenegro, Morocco, Mozambique, Myanmar, Namibia, Nepal, New Zealand, Nicaragua, North Macedonia, Oman, Pakistan, Panama, Papua New Guinea, Paraguay, Peru, Qatar, Republic of the Congo, Romania, Russia, Rwanda, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Samoa, Saudi Arabia, Senegal, Serbia, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Singapore, Slovakia, Slovenia, Solomon Islands, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Suriname, Syria, Tajikistan, Tanzania, Togo, Trinidad and Tobago, Tunisia, Uganda, Ukraine, Uruguay, Uzbekistan, Zambia, Zimbabwe. JSON
Can you actually take the call?
Measured from real connections by Cloudflare Radar, not crowdsourced. Ranked by latency rather than download speed, because a video call breaks on delay and jitter long before it runs out of bandwidth — which is why a headline “Mbps” figure cannot answer this question on its own.
| # | Country | Latency | Jitter | Download | Calls |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 🇶🇦 Qatar | 13.1 ms | 9.6 ms | 280.8 Mbps | Excellent |
| 2 | Liechtenstein | 15.4 ms | 7.2 ms | 382.5 Mbps | Excellent |
| 3 | 🇧🇳 Brunei | 17.7 ms | 12.5 ms | 96.1 Mbps | Good |
| 4 | 🇳🇵 Nepal | 19.2 ms | 13.4 ms | 114.9 Mbps | Good |
| 5 | 🇯🇴 Jordan | 19.5 ms | 11.7 ms | 208.7 Mbps | Good |
| 6 | 🇰🇷 South Korea | 20 ms | 7.2 ms | 273.4 Mbps | Excellent |
| 7 | 🇲🇳 Mongolia | 20.7 ms | 14.1 ms | 110.6 Mbps | Good |
| 8 | 🇲🇺 Mauritius | 22.3 ms | 14 ms | 101.7 Mbps | Good |
| 9 | 🇦🇪 United Arab Emirates | 22.8 ms | 13.2 ms | 201.6 Mbps | Good |
| 10 | 🇲🇻 Maldives | 23.2 ms | 14.2 ms | 68.7 Mbps | Good |
| 11 | 🇧🇸 Bahamas | 23.3 ms | 9.6 ms | 104.6 Mbps | Excellent |
| 12 | 🇹🇹 Trinidad and Tobago | 23.8 ms | 7.9 ms | 258.7 Mbps | Excellent |
Median idle latency and jitter over a 28-day window, updated 2026-09-07. A country Cloudflare has too little data for is left out rather than shown as zero. JSON
How much of government can you do online there?
The UN's E-Government Development Index (0–1) and its three parts: what services are online, the telecommunication infrastructure to reach them, and the human capital to use them. It measures what government provides, not whether a newcomer can use it — most services need a national id or residence first.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom
- E-Government Development Index
- 0.958
- Online services · infrastructure · human capital
- 0.954 · 0.975 · 0.945
- Survey year
- 2024
- UN E-Government Survey 2024 figures, for information only; the survey is biennial. The index measures what government offers online and the infrastructure and skills to use it, not whether a newcomer can use it — most services need a national id or residence first.
Highest E-Government index
- 🇩🇰 Denmark 0.985
- 🇸🇬 Singapore 0.969
- 🇰🇷 South Korea 0.968
- 🇸🇦 Saudi Arabia 0.960
- 🇦🇺 Australia 0.958
- 🇬🇧 United Kingdom 0.958
- 🇮🇪 Ireland 0.958
- 🇳🇱 Netherlands 0.954
UN E-Government Survey 2024 (41 of 41), biennial; read from the UN Knowledgebase's country pages. Refreshed 2026-09-05. JSON