Band 6+: 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.

The pie charts illustrate the distribution of weekly working hours in three groups of workers, namely employees, owners/managers, and the total workforce in Australia in 2001.

It can be easily seen from the graph that the percentage of long-hour workers was prominent in owners/managers and the total workforce, while that of part-time workers was likely to be in employees.

Regarding the total workforce, people working overtime were common, proven by the percentage of 40. Next comes the proportion of part-timers, which accounted for 33%, followed closely by 27% of people who worked full-time.

In terms of owners/managers, the majority of workers (67%) spent over 41 hours per week at work. While full-timers accounted for 19%, part-timers registered the smallest segment at 14%.

For employees, the percentage of people working part-time was 38%. While the figure for people who worked over 41 hours per week was a third, the least ofemployees worked 35-40 hours per week