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, at 09:13:17 on Mon, 5 Aug 2013, Recliner
remarked:
The actual words we
"Europe's largest current construction project is now halfway through,
having absorbed over 25 million working hours and produced around eight
miles of tunnels. Last year and this year the project supported the
equivalent of 13,800 full-time jobs throughout the supply chain."

How many years is that 25 million over? Taking one rule of thumb that
once you've extracted vacations, sick leave, training etc you have 1000
hours per employee at the coal face, that sounds like 25,000 year-jobs.

So the number of jobs appears to be 13,800 FTEs, across Europe. And yes,
that probably includes web site developers and maybe bus builders, too.

We need an economist to explain how far this can be drilled down. Are we
really intending to include the builders who constructed the McDonalds
where the bus driver who ferries the navvies to the site has his
breakfast?
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Roland Perry