{"id":82678,"date":"2025-08-21T13:39:09","date_gmt":"2025-08-21T13:39:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/82678\/"},"modified":"2025-08-21T13:39:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-21T13:39:09","slug":"6-6-of-employed-people-worked-49-hours-or-more-weekly-news-articles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/82678\/","title":{"rendered":"6.6% of employed people worked 49 hours or more weekly &#8211; News articles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ecl-u-type-paragraph\">In 2024, 6.6% of <a class=\"ecl-link\" href=\"https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/eurostat\/statistics-explained\/index.php?title=Glossary:Employed_person_-_LFS\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">employed people<\/a> aged 20 to 64 in the <a class=\"ecl-link\" href=\"https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/eurostat\/statistics-explained\/index.php?title=Glossary:European_Union_(EU)\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">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<p class=\"ecl-u-type-paragraph\">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<p class=\"ecl-u-type-paragraph\" style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p class=\"ecl-u-type-paragraph ecl-u-type-align-center\">Source dataset: <a class=\"ecl-link\" href=\"https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/eurostat\/databrowser\/bookmark\/2a8adf71-eeae-452b-a253-42217c7c682a?lang=en\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">lfsa_qoe_32a<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ecl-u-type-paragraph\">The share of <a class=\"ecl-link\" href=\"https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/eurostat\/statistics-explained\/index.php?title=Glossary:Self-employed\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">self-employed<\/a> people who worked long hours (27.5% of total self-employed people) was higher than that of <a class=\"ecl-link\" href=\"https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/eurostat\/statistics-explained\/index.php?title=Glossary:Employee_-_LFS\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">employees<\/a> (3.4% of total employees).\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"ecl-u-type-paragraph\">Out of all occupational groups, as defined by the <a class=\"ecl-link\" href=\"https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/eurostat\/statistics-explained\/index.php?title=Glossary:International_standard_classification_of_occupations_(ISCO)\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">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&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":82679,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[84,4535,1294,4536,4537,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-82678","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-business","tag-data-driven-news","tag-economy","tag-lfs","tag-population-and-social-conditions","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82678","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82678"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82678\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/82679"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}