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In 2020, one salaried employee worked an average of 42.6 hours per week.
Although 2020 was a difficult year, where for several months many people were forced to stay home due to quarantine, in order to curb the pandemic, still employees worked only 0.8 hours less per week, with a decrease of only 1.8%, compared to the normal year 2019, according to data published by INSTAT.
Many people continued to work online, while others seem to have stayed longer at work after the site opened, in order to make up for lost profit during quarantine. Less work was done in agriculture, with 3.1 hours less per week, followed by construction (-1.1 hours less) trade (-0.9 hours), production (-0.7).
Men worked 0.7 hours less per week in 2020, while women 0.8 hours less. According to economic activities, the sectors where employees stay longer at work are manufacturing, with 45.6 hours in total, followed by trade, accommodation, hotel (44.2) construction (43.2), industry (42). More privileged is the state administration, which works an average of 39.2 hours per week, or 3.4 hours per week less than the national average.
Women (41.5 hours) work on average 2.1 hours per week less than men (43.6 hours). The highest difference between women and men is in the activities of trade, hospitality, accommodation (-3 hours). Compared to other European countries, Albanian employees continued to have longer working hours even during the pandemic year. According to other Eurostat data, in 2020, the average average EU work week of people employed in their main job consisted of 37 hours, or 4.6 hours less than that of an Albanian employee.
According to Eurostat, In 2020, the number of current hours worked in the main job in the EU decreased by 12.0% compared to 2019. This decrease can be explained by the measures taken in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, which caused many people to alternate between periods of work and periods of absence from work in 2020. As a result, more people worked fewer hours than usual and were absent from work.
At national level, there was a decline in working hours in all Member States. The highest declines were recorded for Greece (-19.7%), Spain (-19.5%), Portugal and Italy (both -19.0%). EU countries where there was little change in working hours (with a decrease of less than 5%) were: Finland (-4.4%), Denmark and Luxembourg (both -4.1%) and the Netherlands (-3.2%) ./Monitor
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