1,000,000 Hours Worked

Desk Changing How the World Works. In the month of August alone, remote contractors on oDesk worked 1,000,913 hours. That's a lot of work for a mere thirty-one days! It got us thinking about what else you could accomplish in a million hours. 1,000,000 HOURS WORKED Voyages to the Sun Pack your 18 sunscreen 143 hours Travelling at the speed of the Apollo 13 mission (which took 143 hours to get to the moon and back), you could make 18 trips to the Sun! Pump some iron Put in overtime If you began working a million Building at the same speed as the original construction crew (including croissant breaks), hours ago, you'd be working for you could build 52 Eiffel Towers. 114 years straight - twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week (and you'd have to learn how to use a computer AND a steam engine!) 114 years Get it done, faster The crew of the Empire State Building spread construction over 1 year, 1 month and 15 days. If it had been built on oDesk, the landmark would have been completed in almost half the time. 13 months and 15 days months START with oDesk Current Eiffel 52 towers construction Infographic: Ernestoolivares.com