![]() Because of this, digitalisation provides opportunities to improve workers’ work–life balance. There is potential for high levels of flexibility and autonomy in the digitalised work environment.Publication: Working conditions in the time of COVID-19: Implications for the future.Women with children worked 1.5 hours fewer in paid work than women without children, but 29.3 hours more in unpaid work. In 2021, men with children spent 1.3 hours more per week on paid work and another 14.2 hours more on unpaid work compared with men without children. Comparing the time spent on paid and unpaid work by men and women with and without children further highlights the gender disparities.In 2021, women in part-time jobs worked as many total hours (paid and unpaid) as men in full-time jobs (64 and 65 hours, respectively), with the former spending the equivalent of a full-time job doing unpaid work (37 hours).This resulted in women working 7 hours more per week than men (70 hours and 63 hours, respectively). On average, in the EU27, in 2021, men spent nearly 6 hours per week more than women on paid work, while women spent 13 hours more on unpaid work than men. A strong gender divide continues in paid and unpaid work (including domestic work, and care for children or relatives).Among workers whose working hours were the standard 35–40 hours per week, 4 out of every 10 would have preferred to work fewer hours. ![]() The EWCTS data suggest that there was a latent but widespread desire among workers to work fewer hours: 45% would have preferred to work fewer hours, while 43% were satisfied with their current hours.A substantial minority of employees, 14%, worked long hours of 48 hours or more a week. Most of the working population continued to put in standard working hours in their jobs in 2021: 70% worked a five-day week, and roughly half worked 35–40 hours a week.
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