Then there is Austria with 42.4 hours per week, Malta with 42.2, and Poland with 41.7, Portugal with 41.7 hours, and Cyprus with 41.6 hours per week, these being the countries of the European Union in which the most hours per week are dedicated to work.
On the other hand, the countries in which the least time is dedicated to work are Denmark with 38.4 hours, Lithuania, with just 40 hours, and Finland with 40.2 hours per week of work.
According to all this data revealed by this study, the average working hours in all countries of the European Union is 40.9 hours per week, and in Spain this metric is located at 40.6.
Other noteworthy data is that men have a longer working day than women, working an average of 39.7 hours, compared to 34.1 hours for women.
There are other studies, such as the “Bad Jobs Recovery: European Job Quality Index 2005-2015”, which highlight that the type of working day is also very different between European countries, most countries start working between 7 and 8 in the morning, but in Spain it usually starts at 9.
In almost all countries of the European Union, people usually work a continuous day, but in Spain they usually stop for two hours for lunch. And the usual time to close in the rest of Europe is between 4:00 and 6:00 p.m., while in Spain it ends around 8:00 p.m.