Swiss worked more in 2015

In Switzerland the employed worked more: in 2015 the hours worked in a professional environment reached  7.889 billion, an increase of 2.3% over the previous year. This was announced today, Monday, May 23, by the Federal Statistical Office, which published the data of last year.

The study states that have increased both the number of employees (+ 1.7%) and the actual annual duration of activities for everyone (+ 0.5%), indicating that this growth is attributable to frequently coincides with the end of holidays week.
The employees in the primary sector full time lead the ranking: 44 hours and 48 minutes, followed in order by "Accommodation and food service activities" (42 hours and 17 minutes), "Financial assets and insurance "(41 hours and 57 minutes) and" Other service activities "(41 hours and 34 minutes).

Part-time employees, then, have recorded a significantly higher progression compared to that of 2014: + 4.0%. The actual weekly hours of employees, however, suffered a contraction of 7 minutes, between 2011 and 2015, coming in at 41 hours and 17 minutes. The number of weeks of vacation instead confirmed the tendency to adjust upward going from 5.07 to 5.15 weeks per year.