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In Italy, almost one in ten workers between the ages of 20 and 64 worked on average at least 49 hours a week in 2023, a higher percentage than the EU average (7.1%) and lower only than that of Greece, France and Cyprus. Practically the equivalent of an extra day a week considering that the standard working hours in many cases fluctuate between 36 and 40 hours a week.
And give Eurostat
This can be read in the Eurostat tables on workers who work long working hours, from which it emerges that the figure is linked to the consistency of self-employed work which is traditionally engaged in for a greater number of hours than the total average of workers (29.3% of self-employed overall works at least 49 hours). In our country, employees who work at least 49 hours a week on average are 3.8% (3.6% in the EU), while self-employed workers with employees who work these hours are 46% of the total (41.7% the EU average).
The self-employed without employees who work 49 hours a week are 27.4% (23.6% in the EU) while those engaged in a job helping the family business who reach 49 hours are 20.1% (14% in the EU).
Autonomous: one in two “workaholic” workers
The percentage of “workaholic” rises if we look only at men with 12.9% of all employed people working at least 49 hours a week (9.9% in the EU). Among the self-employed with employees, the percentage exceeds 50% in Italy (50.8%) and stands at 46.3% in the EU.