....... the mathematics referred to earlier are indisputable. They are empirical and no amount of gobbeldygook can change that.
One response missed the point completely in that it is not the number of days worked or days off that count - rather, it is the hours worked vs hours off duty. Two simple examples shd make this clear:
1. Person A works 1 minute per day for each day of the year. So, he has had no days off but has worked a total of about 6 hours in the year. Not bad eh??
2. Person B ( Bionic Man?? ) works 24 hours per day for 100 days and then has 265 days off. This person will have put more time in at the office in those 100 days than the average office worker does in a year.
For simplicity, lunch breaks and leave were left out of the original posting. So long as one compares like with like, it doesn't change things. ( e.g office worker gets 1 hrs paid lunch break per day and 12 hr ops officer gets a similar pro rata paid break. )
QED??