Over 20% of employed people in EU worked on weekends in 2023

In 2023, 22.4% of employed people in the European Union reported usually working on weekends, according to Eurostat data.

Weekend work was most common among skilled agricultural, forestry, and fishery workers (49.5%), service and sales workers (48.9%), and people in elementary occupations (26.7%).

By employment type, 19.2% of employees reported regular weekend work, compared to 46.7% of self-employed persons with employees (employers) and 37.8% of self-employed individuals without employees (own-account workers).

Among EU member states, Greece recorded the highest share of employees working weekends (32.3%), followed by Italy (30.9%) and Cyprus (26.4%). The lowest shares were observed in Lithuania (3.0%), Poland (4.5%), and Hungary (6.6%).

Source: EUROSTAT