Ignacio González-Vázquez

Technological advancements promised shorter workweeks, yet full-time workers in Europe still clock the same hours as in the 1980s. From the late 19th century until the 1980s, there were consistent and significant reductions in the number of hours that full-time workers devoted to work in Europe. However, a clear historical shift occurred in the 1980s: since then, full-time workers have continued working roughly the same number of hours per week up to 2022, as seen in Figure 1.