>**People in Balkan countries work the longest weeks**
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>When the European countries for which this information is available were compared, Turkey had the longest working weeks at 42.9 hours in 2020, which is the latest data.
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>Turkey was followed by Montenegro (42.8 hours, 2020 data) and Serbia (42.3 hours). These are the countries having average working weeks of longer than 40 hours.
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>Greece and Romania were followed by Poland (39.5 hours), Bulgaria (39.2 hours) and North Macedonia (39 hours).
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>This all suggests that people in Balkan countries have the longest average working hours per week.
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>**The shortest weeks: Netherlands, Austria, and Norway**
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>In the list of countries with the shortest average working weeks in 2022, the Netherlands (32.4 hours) was followed by Austria (33.7 hours), Norway (34.1 hours) and Denmark and Germany (both 34.6 hours).
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>**How many hours do people work in the UK, France, and Spain?**
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>The UK (36.4 hours in 2019) had the same amount of average working hours as the EU. France and Italy (both 36.2 hours) had slightly lower figures than the EU. People in Spain worked 36.5 hours per week, which was only 6 minutes more than the EU average.
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>The five Nordic countries all had shorter average working weeks than the EU average.
There must be some jobs pushing down hours per week because most of people in Finland have 40-45h in the week.
Averages are average. There a lot of people in the Netherlands that work parttime 32-36hours a week. More then in any other country.
In NL many people work part-time, giving low unemployment and also low average work hours.
A lot of women in The Netherlands work parttime so that probably brings down the average for us. Government office jobs are 36 hours, for most other companies it is 40 hours but 4×9 is becoming more common.
I see more pixels than jobs
Useless stats.
🎶”We work! To earn the right to work.”🎶
Montenegro is famous for their work ethics.
Should only consider full-time workers tbh
Almost no one works part time in Serbia, and most things (shops, restaurants, cafes) aren’t closed on sundays which probably leads to a lot of working hours. There are some talks to close down grocery stores on sundays but it’s far from actually happening. Most of those things close early on sundays.
40h a week.
UK – salary £1800 a month. The same job (plus 10+ years of experience) in Poland £812. Prices – very similar.
Good to see Portugal consistently siding with it’s true geographic location.
On serious note, something I have recently considered is that during very hot days, work hours are useless. I am at work, sure, but most of my effort lies in ensuring nobody finds out how little I get done when I am dying from overheating.
I guess it is not factoring in the vacation days and bank holidays which can also vary widely between countries and impact the average.
Would be interesting to see average worked hours per everyone in a country. No problem working long hours in a country where the wife stays at home and take care of the household but if both of you work then you probably value shorter working hours even if the total average is higher.
now give me one compared to their financial gain
“Chills in Dutch” Work? I just go there so they see im there.
Guess what, the poorer you are, the more power the employers have over you. Eastern Europeans generally work more and for less. You just don’t have the luxury or working part time unless your partner is making much more money than you.
Both me and my GF work (in theory) 40hrs a week, but in practice it is closer to 45.
Shops, restaurants, etc. work on Saturdays, Sundays and holidays unlike in western Europe.
Not a proper way to calculate the workload by country imo. This heavily plays in favour of countries with a lot of part time work
The less you make per hour the more hours you need to work. Working part time here for example would amount to nothing when even full time pays little.
This gets posted every month and it still says nothing. Can we just stop posting this shit.
As is so often the case, the whole thing is only meaningful to a limited extent; in some Eastern European countries, for example, the lunch break counts as working time.
If this uses “raw” contracts data then Italy is definitely way lower than it should be
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>**People in Balkan countries work the longest weeks**
>
>When the European countries for which this information is available were compared, Turkey had the longest working weeks at 42.9 hours in 2020, which is the latest data.
>
>Turkey was followed by Montenegro (42.8 hours, 2020 data) and Serbia (42.3 hours). These are the countries having average working weeks of longer than 40 hours.
>
>Greece and Romania were followed by Poland (39.5 hours), Bulgaria (39.2 hours) and North Macedonia (39 hours).
>
>This all suggests that people in Balkan countries have the longest average working hours per week.
>
>**The shortest weeks: Netherlands, Austria, and Norway**
>
>In the list of countries with the shortest average working weeks in 2022, the Netherlands (32.4 hours) was followed by Austria (33.7 hours), Norway (34.1 hours) and Denmark and Germany (both 34.6 hours).
>
>**How many hours do people work in the UK, France, and Spain?**
>
>The UK (36.4 hours in 2019) had the same amount of average working hours as the EU. France and Italy (both 36.2 hours) had slightly lower figures than the EU. People in Spain worked 36.5 hours per week, which was only 6 minutes more than the EU average.
>
>The five Nordic countries all had shorter average working weeks than the EU average.
There must be some jobs pushing down hours per week because most of people in Finland have 40-45h in the week.
Averages are average. There a lot of people in the Netherlands that work parttime 32-36hours a week. More then in any other country.
In NL many people work part-time, giving low unemployment and also low average work hours.
A lot of women in The Netherlands work parttime so that probably brings down the average for us. Government office jobs are 36 hours, for most other companies it is 40 hours but 4×9 is becoming more common.
I see more pixels than jobs
Useless stats.
🎶”We work! To earn the right to work.”🎶
Montenegro is famous for their work ethics.
Should only consider full-time workers tbh
Almost no one works part time in Serbia, and most things (shops, restaurants, cafes) aren’t closed on sundays which probably leads to a lot of working hours. There are some talks to close down grocery stores on sundays but it’s far from actually happening. Most of those things close early on sundays.
40h a week.
UK – salary £1800 a month. The same job (plus 10+ years of experience) in Poland £812. Prices – very similar.
Good to see Portugal consistently siding with it’s true geographic location.
On serious note, something I have recently considered is that during very hot days, work hours are useless. I am at work, sure, but most of my effort lies in ensuring nobody finds out how little I get done when I am dying from overheating.
I guess it is not factoring in the vacation days and bank holidays which can also vary widely between countries and impact the average.
Would be interesting to see average worked hours per everyone in a country. No problem working long hours in a country where the wife stays at home and take care of the household but if both of you work then you probably value shorter working hours even if the total average is higher.
now give me one compared to their financial gain
“Chills in Dutch” Work? I just go there so they see im there.
Guess what, the poorer you are, the more power the employers have over you. Eastern Europeans generally work more and for less. You just don’t have the luxury or working part time unless your partner is making much more money than you.
Both me and my GF work (in theory) 40hrs a week, but in practice it is closer to 45.
Shops, restaurants, etc. work on Saturdays, Sundays and holidays unlike in western Europe.
Not a proper way to calculate the workload by country imo. This heavily plays in favour of countries with a lot of part time work
The less you make per hour the more hours you need to work. Working part time here for example would amount to nothing when even full time pays little.
This gets posted every month and it still says nothing. Can we just stop posting this shit.
As is so often the case, the whole thing is only meaningful to a limited extent; in some Eastern European countries, for example, the lunch break counts as working time.
If this uses “raw” contracts data then Italy is definitely way lower than it should be