would you trade lives?
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a profession in one country

life as a office worker in Japan

1 stranger working as office worker in Japan have shared an anonymous fragment of their life. Average happiness 4.0 / 10, average stress 9.0 / 10. 25% of voters would trade lives with one of them; 63% would not.

fewer than 5 fragments — averages may not be representative.

averages across this group

1
lives
4.0/ 10
happiness
9.0/ 10
stress
5.5h/ night
sleep
4h/ week
free time
$3,041/ month
avg income

how strangers vote on these lives

would trade25%
would not trade63%
unsure12%

110 voices

how this group feels to strangers

  • lonely8
  • exhausting7
  • meaningful6
  • peaceful5
  • stable5
  • stressful5

one office worker in Japan has shared an anonymous fragment of their life. the sample is small — read the numbers below as suggestive, not definitive.

asked whether they would trade lives with office workers in Japan, 110 strangers have answered. the result is narrowly no — slightly more strangers would keep their own: 25% would trade, 63% would not, 12% are unsure.

compared with office workers worldwide, office workers in Japan are less happy by 0.9 points on the 1–10 scale, more stressed by 2.1 points, and less envied by 12 percentage points in the trade-or-not vote.

compared with everyone else in Japan, office workers in Japan are less happy by 2.0 points on the 1–10 scale, more stressed by 2.6 points, and less envied by 22 percentage points in the trade-or-not vote.

how this compares

  • vs all office workers globally
    happiness -0.9stress +2.1would-trade -12.0pp
  • vs all lives in Japan
    happiness -2.0stress +2.6would-trade -22.0pp

fragments