The given graphs illustrate the proportion of laborers based on working time weekly in the industrial sector in France, Denmark, Sweden and the UK in 2002.
Overall, it can be seen that the majority percentage of workers in four European countries allocated time for their job is between 34 and 40 per week except for France, they just worked from 31 to 33 hours each week.
To begin with, in 2002, the UK had nearly half of laborers work from 34 to 40 hours once a week compared with roughly 70% of Denmark and approximately 40% of France, moreover, 80% of employees in Sweden spent around 5 to 7 hours working everyday. However, the figure of workers who spend under 30 hours per week was low in this period, the UK and Denmark accounted for lower than 10%, while Sweden and France spent under 20%.
In addition, in France, laborers allocated time for work between 31 to 33 made up for 50% compared to around 40% of Sweden, meanwhile Denmark and the UK are only equal one over two and one third of France, respectively. Furthermore, the index of employees who worked from 41 to over 50 per week in the UK and France reached 20% and not less than 10%. In Denmark, the metric of laborers working more than 41 hours once a week spent a different amount of time working was quite similar, whereas the figure of Sweden reached approximately 30%.