economy
Every fifth worker in the European Union works on weekends
More than a fifth of employees in the European Union, about 21.3 percent, regularly work on weekends, and this percentage is highest in services and agriculture, according to Eurostat data.
TL;DR
- 21.3% of EU employees regularly work on weekends.
- Services (47.6%) and agriculture (47.2%) have the highest rates of weekend work.
- Low-skilled workers have a 25.7% rate of weekend work.
- Self-employed individuals work weekends more often than employed individuals (45.8% for employers, 35.9% for self-employed without employees).
- Greece (31.5%), Cyprus (31.3%), and Malta (29.2%) have the highest percentage of weekend workers.
- Lithuania (3%), Poland (4.2%), and Hungary (6.2%) have the lowest percentage of weekend workers.