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00:00Where in Europe do people work the most hours per week?

00:07As the summer holidays wind to an end, people are returning to their desks en masse.

00:12But in which countries are Europeans most likely to work long hours?

00:15Figures from Eurostat showed that 6.6% of employed people aged 20 to 64 in the EU worked long hours in 2024.

00:23Long hours are defined as usually spending 49 hours or more every week working in their main job.

00:28By contrast, the average working week across the EU was 36 hours last year.

00:33The share of people working long hours has decreased.

00:36In 2019, this figure was still 8.4%, while in 2014 it was almost 10.

00:41Behind this EU-wide figure, however, had striking discrepancies on a national level.

00:46Among EU countries, Greece had the highest share of people working long hours, at 12 to 4%.

00:51Greece was followed by Cyprus and France.

00:54By contrast, far fewer people worked long hours in Bulgaria and in the Baltic countries of Latvia and Lithuania.

01:00Self-employed people are much more likely to spend 49 hours or more at work per week.

01:05More than a quarter of all self-employed respondents indicated working such hours, compared to 3.4% among employees.

01:14Long working hours were most common among skilled agricultural, forestry and fishery workers.

01:20More than a quarter of all employed people in that occupation group worked long hours.

01:26Meanwhile, this figure was 1 in 5 among managers.

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