The charts illustrates how the workers allocated time per week in the industrial sector in four nations of Europe in 2002.
Overall, most employees in four countries spent 31 to 40 hours working, except for The UK, which had the largest proportion of workers working more than 50 hours.
The percentage of Swedish workers devoted 36-40 hours in workplaces was 80 percent. It was closely followed by Denmark, which was double the proportion of France, at 70 and 35 percent respectively. Half of employees in the UK worked the similar range of time. Meanwhile, the figure for 41-45 hours in Sweden was three times higher than that of France, with respective figures being 30 and 10 percent. The shares of workers in the remaining two countries were around 10 percent. In addition, there were notable similarities in the statistics of 46-50 and 50+ hours in Denmark and Sweden, at approximately 10 percent. Similarly,France and the UK shared the same figure for 46-50 hours, at roughly 10 percent, whereas there was a large discrepancy in the percentage of these countries in the last range of time, at 9 percent for the former and 20 percent for the latter.
Just under one-tenth of laborers in all four nations spent less than less than 14 hours working. The percentage of Swedish employees allocated 15 to 30 hours for engaging in industrial activities was 20 percent, which far surpassed that of the remaining three countries, whose figures fluctuated around 7 to 14 percent. Regarding the range from 31-35, the largest statistic was seen in Denmark, at 50 percent. The figures for France,Sweden and the UK were significantly lower, at 11, 38 and 10 percent respectively.