In the last quarter of 2020, weekly working hours decreased by 2.8 hours, marking the largest decrease in the EU in a year-on-year comparison with the same period of 2019. This data was published in a joint Eurofound and European Commission report, which describes the employment and working time developments by EU country, sector and occupation in the first year of the COVID-19 crisis.
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