{"id":13981,"date":"2025-08-21T14:03:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-21T14:03:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/13981\/"},"modified":"2025-08-21T14:03:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-21T14:03:10","slug":"6-6-of-employed-people-worked-49-hours-or-more-weekly-news-articles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/13981\/","title":{"rendered":"6.6% of employed people worked 49 hours or more weekly – News articles"},"content":{"rendered":"

In 2024, 6.6% of employed people<\/a> aged 20 to 64 in the EU<\/a> worked long hours, defined as usually spending 49 hours or more weekly in their main job. This share of workers with long hours has decreased over time, down from 9.8% in 2014 and 8.4% in 2019.<\/p>\n

Among the EU countries, Greece had the highest share of workers with long hours (12.4%), followed by Cyprus (10.0%) and France (9.9%). In contrast, the lowest rates were recorded in Bulgaria (0.4%), Latvia (1.0%) and Lithuania (1.4%).\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Source dataset: lfsa_qoe_32a<\/a><\/p>\n

The share of self-employed<\/a> people who worked long hours (27.5% of total self-employed people) was higher than that of employees<\/a> (3.4% of total employees).\u00a0<\/p>\n

Out of all occupational groups, as defined by the international standard classification of occupations<\/a> (ISCO), long working hours were most common among skilled agricultural, forestry and fishery workers (26.2% of all employed people in that occupation group) and managers (21.1%).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In 2024, 6.6% of employed people aged 20 to 64 in the EU worked long hours, defined as…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":13982,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[174],"tags":[79,5720,179,18,19,17,12996,5723],"class_list":{"0":"post-13981","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-economy","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-data-driven-news","10":"tag-economy","11":"tag-eire","12":"tag-ie","13":"tag-ireland","14":"tag-lfs","15":"tag-population-and-social-conditions"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13981","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13981"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13981\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13982"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}