Do you guys only work on average 25.9 hours a week? How the hell do you even… never mind. I wanna be a Dane in my next life.
Without facktchecking the numbers it could be true, if it is the average for all working danes including those in part time positions, -possibly also those who ar unemployed.
The standart weekly working hours for full time employment in Denmark is 37 hours a week.
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Edit: i want to add that at my job an estimated working year in effective hours amounts to 1582 hours which is app. 30,4 hours a week. But that is if you deduct holidays, national holidays and an average number of expected sick leave + childrens two days of sick leave (neither of which in is included in your ordinary holidays).
A full time employment is still 37 hours a week.
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And you should be aware that even though it seems like we have a lot of time off (which we do) the average number of working hours in Denmark counted pr. adult dane is actually comparatively quite high, as really few people are stay at home parents and our retirement age is older than other European contries, so more people work and we work until we are older.
I work part-time. I work 32 hours weekly. None of my friends or family work fewer hours than me.
So that study seems a bit unlikely imo 🤔
There’s a lot of people working part time as well, which might skew this statistic. I’m a student and work on average 20 hours a week alongside my studies.
You also have to keep into account what they are actually measuring. Do they look at the average work week (eg excluding vacations) or do they look at the amount of work done on an average week (eg including vacations). Because that makes a huge difference. Most full time employed people in Denmark has 5 weeks of vacation every year.
Must be because of all the part time workers, which is basically all the teenagers and students.
A lot also works full time permanently night, which is often compensated with fewer hours and then you’re at 30hours a week, sometimes less.
Normally it is 37 hours per week. Then there are a bunch of people that either don’t work or work part time. These are undermining the wellfare system.
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Do you guys only work on average 25.9 hours a week? How the hell do you even… never mind. I wanna be a Dane in my next life.
Without facktchecking the numbers it could be true, if it is the average for all working danes including those in part time positions, -possibly also those who ar unemployed.
The standart weekly working hours for full time employment in Denmark is 37 hours a week.
​
Edit: i want to add that at my job an estimated working year in effective hours amounts to 1582 hours which is app. 30,4 hours a week. But that is if you deduct holidays, national holidays and an average number of expected sick leave + childrens two days of sick leave (neither of which in is included in your ordinary holidays).
A full time employment is still 37 hours a week.
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And you should be aware that even though it seems like we have a lot of time off (which we do) the average number of working hours in Denmark counted pr. adult dane is actually comparatively quite high, as really few people are stay at home parents and our retirement age is older than other European contries, so more people work and we work until we are older.
I work part-time. I work 32 hours weekly. None of my friends or family work fewer hours than me.
So that study seems a bit unlikely imo 🤔
There’s a lot of people working part time as well, which might skew this statistic. I’m a student and work on average 20 hours a week alongside my studies.
You also have to keep into account what they are actually measuring. Do they look at the average work week (eg excluding vacations) or do they look at the amount of work done on an average week (eg including vacations). Because that makes a huge difference. Most full time employed people in Denmark has 5 weeks of vacation every year.
Must be because of all the part time workers, which is basically all the teenagers and students.
A lot also works full time permanently night, which is often compensated with fewer hours and then you’re at 30hours a week, sometimes less.
Normally it is 37 hours per week. Then there are a bunch of people that either don’t work or work part time. These are undermining the wellfare system.