UK employees work third longest hours in EU, says ONS

Full-time employees in the UK work for the third-longest amount of time in the EU, completing an average of 42.7 hours a week compared to the EU average of 37.4 hours, according to the Office for National Statistics.

Of all the EU countries, full-time workers in Austria and Greece work the hardest, completing an average 43.7 hour working week, followed by those in the UK. Full-time employees in Ireland and Denmark were found to work shorter hours than the EU average at a respective 39.7 and 39.1 hours... read more

The Guardian
Dec 11