In 2025, the average weekly working hours for EU workers aged 20‑64 was 35.9 hours, down from 36.9 hours in 2015. The longest working weeks were in Greece (39.6 hours), Bulgaria and Poland (38.7 hours each) and Lithuania (38.4 hours). The shortest were in the Netherlands (31.9 hours), followed by Denmark and Germany (33.9 hours each) and Austria (34.0 hours). By occupation, the longest hours were recorded by skilled agricultural, forestry and fishery workers (42.0 hours), managers (40.6 hours) and armed forces personnel (39.4 hours). Shortest hours were in elementary occupations (31.8 hours), clerical support workers (34.0 hours) and service and sales workers (34.5 hours). These figures come from the Eurostat LFS datasets lfsa_ewhan2 and lfsa_ewhais.
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