In 2024, around 6.4 percent of working people in Luxembourg worked more than 49 hours per week – a figure slightly below the EU average.
According to new figures from Eurostat, the European statistics office based in Kirchberg, 6.4 percent of Luxembourg's workforce reported working 49 hours or more per week, compared to the EU average of 6.6 percent.
The share of people working long hours has steadily decreased across the bloc in recent years. While 9.8 percent of EU workers fell into this category in 2014, the figure dropped to 8.4 percent in 2019 and 6.6 percent in 2024.
Significant differences remain between member states. In Greece, 12.4 percent of workers reported working 49 hours or more per week, followed by Cyprus with 10 percent and France with 9.9 percent. The lowest rates were recorded in Bulgaria (0.4 percent), Latvia (1.0 percent), and Lithuania (1.4 percent).
Self-employed people were far more likely to work long hours, with 27.5 percent reporting 49 hours or more per week in 2024, compared to just 3.4 percent of employees. By profession, long hours were most common among skilled agricultural, forestry, and fishery workers (26.2 percent), followed by managers (21.1 percent), Eurostat reported.
