Average hours of people in paid work
•full-time workers: 37.0 hours
•part-time workers: 15.5 hours
1 in 5 works more than 45 hours a week
Men and women work differently
•Males workers: 86.3% more than 31 hours 27.0% more than 45 hours
•Female workers: 55.8% more than 31 hours 9.7% more than 45 hours
Shorter hours since the down-turn
•1 million ‘involuntary part-timers’ – up by 400,000 sinceSpring 2008. Most are men.