00:00Way more people than you'd think work on weekends, but where is it most common?
00:08For hundreds of thousands of people, the weekend isn't exactly a break. According to the latest
00:13Eurostat numbers, more than 1 in 5 workers across Europe, 21.3%, regularly work on Saturdays and
00:21Sundays. And some parts of Europe are way above that average. Weekend work is especially common
00:27across the Balkans and the Med. In Greece, a striking 41% of employees and self-employed workers
00:33are on shift during the weekend, this drops to 33% in Bosnia-Herzegovina and 32% in Malta,
00:41Cyprus and North Macedonia. At the same time, the lowest numbers are found much further north and
00:47east. In Lithuania, only 4% of workers graft on weekends, as do 7% in Hungary and 7.5
00:55% in Poland.
00:56It's probably not a huge surprise that business owners get fewer weekends off than employees.
01:0146% of them need to be on the job compared to 18.5%. However, that's more common for specific
01:09job
01:10sectors. For example, nearly half of all service and sales workers regularly work on weekends,
01:16along with people in agriculture, forestry and fishing. Weekend work is also the norm for many
01:22people in so-called elementary occupations, meaning routine manual jobs that often involve considerable
01:28physical effort,
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01:2995%,
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