In 2024, 29 percent of workers never worked outside office hours. In 2021, this was still 27 percent. Forty-seven percent sometimes worked in the evening, night, or on weekends; this remained the same.
Especially the share of people working on Saturdays is lower. In 2024, 14 percent of workers mostly or always worked on Saturdays, in 2021 this was 16 percent. Work on Sundays or in the evening decreased less strongly. The share of night work remained the same.
In 2024, about as many people mostly or always worked in the evenings as on Saturdays. In 2024, 9 percent of workers mostly or always worked on Sundays, in 2021 this was 10 percent. Night work is the least common; in both years about 3 percent mostly or always worked at night.
Of the working 15- to 25-year-olds, 55 percent say they mostly or always work outside office hours. This is significantly more than in the other age groups, where this percentage is below 20. The 55- to 65-year-olds and 65- to 75-year-olds most often work within office hours; 33 percent of workers say they never work outside office hours.
Workers in the occupational classes of ICT professions and business economic and administrative professions say least often that they work outside office hours; this applies to at most 10 percent of them. In the service professions, 52 percent of workers mostly or always work in the evening, night, or on weekends.
In the top ten occupational groups in which most workers say they mostly or always work outside office hours, there are many service professions, such as kitchen helpers and cooks. Kitchen helpers and livestock farmers work most often outside office hours of all occupational groups: respectively 81 and 79 percent. Compared to other professions, kitchen helpers work a lot in the evening, while livestock farmers work relatively much on Saturdays and Sundays.
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