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Which European country's small business owners are the hardest working?
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Which European country's small business owners are the hardest working?
The majority of Italians and French rarely skip their lunch break, while many British entrepreneurs sacrifice their self-care for business.
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Which are the most hard-working small business owners in Europe?
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Small entrepreneurs are the greatest crafters in business.
00:13
They tend to work over 41 hours a week,
00:16
compared to the EU employee average of 36 hours.
00:21
New research, however, highlights significant contrasts
00:25
in the way they go about their hustle.
00:27
43% of British small business owners, for example,
00:31
tend to frequently skip lunch breaks
00:34
against only 11% of Italians and 17% of French.
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Likewise, Italians have the highest rate of employers
00:44
going for lunch breaks for over an hour, 33%,
00:49
while Brits are at the bottom with only 5%.
00:53
UK small entrepreneurs are also the least inclined
00:57
to give importance to their self-care.
01:00
Looking at entrepreneurs across all countries and company sizes,
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99% of which are small businesses,
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the hardest workers in the EU are the Belgians,
01:12
clocking in an average of 48.9 hours per week,
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followed by Cypriots and Greeks.
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At the other end of the scale,
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Baltic countries put in the least hours,
01:25
with Latvia, Estonia and Lithuania at the bottom of the list.
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