You have said almost the same thing that I thought, if they work their agreed hours, I don't know if most of them work overtime, but if they are disciplined, and already comparing yourself to the fact that you work more than your neighbors in Spain or Greece is a great advance in my opinion
kek
In Japan, I understand that working hours have decreased by law, since there was a lot of social problem with that, the problem they have now is that they don't usually take vacations regularly, and they usually stay up very late chatting with the boss or the coworkers as if they were a "family"