According to data released by Eurostat, Portugal is the ninth country in the European Union where people work the most on Saturdays and Sundays.

“In 2023, 22.4% of people employed in the European Union frequently worked on weekends,” the statistics office reports.

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The data show, however, that there are significant variations between Member States. While in Greece, 32.3% of salaried workers frequently worked on Saturdays and Sundays, in Lithuania, only 3% did so.

And in Portugal? Here, around 20% of employees frequently worked on weekends, a figure that was above the EU average (22.4%) and was therefore one of the highest among the various Member States.

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Eurostat highlights that, across the European Union as a whole, self-employed workers tend to work more on weekends than employees. “While 19.2% of employees frequently worked on weekends, this was the case for 46.7% of self-employed workers with employees and for 37.8% of self-employed workers without employees,” details the statistics office.

In Portugal, this is also the trend. As already mentioned, 20% of employees regularly worked on Saturdays and Sundays, compared with around 45% of self-employed workers with employees.