Band 7+: You should spend about 20 minutes on this task. The graphs below information about the weekly work hours in Australia in 2001. Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features and make comparisons where relevant. You should write at least 150 words.

Provided are three pie graphs concerning the Australian’s work hours per week in the year 2001.

Overall, the data reveals a stark contrast between the work hours patterns of employees, where part-time work predominated, and of either owners or managers, where long hours work was significantly higher.

It is clear that the total workforce was 8.8 million, of which the vast majority were recruited as employees, at 6.9 million, and the remaining 1.9 million were owners or managers.

Regarding the total workforce, the long hours work of over 41 hours per week represented the largest proportion of the total, at 40%. Part-time work, under 35 hours per week, and full-time work, 35-40 hours per week, accounted for 33% and 27%, respectively.

By contrast, owners or managers exhibited an overwhelming reliance on long-hours work, with the figure as high as 67%, reflecting that they had to do more work than employees. Full-time work and part-time work followed, at significantly lower respective rates of 19% and 14%. Employees, meanwhile, displayed an opposite trend with part-time work at 38%, while long-hours and full-time work comprised 33% and 29%.