STA, March 6, 2018 – Employees in Slovenia worked a total of 1.17 billion hours in 2017, or 1.8% more than in the year before, preliminary data released by the Statistics Office (SURS) show.
Working the most were workers in the construction sector, having worked an average of 139 hours a month or six hours more than the national average.
Meanwhile, the strongest rise in hours worked was recorded in the sector dealing with real estate (+5.2%), while the sharpest drop was recorded in agriculture, hunting, forestry and fisheries (-5%).
Meanwhile, workers in Slovenia worked a total of 302.6 million hours in the last quarter of last year, up 1.3% from the same period in the year before.
The rise was fuelled by an increase in the workforce, according to SURS.
The real estate sector saw the sharpest rise and the sector of agriculture, hunting, forestry and fisheries the sharpest fall in the number of hours worked in October-December 2017.
Despite the overall rise in the fourth quarter, an individual worker worked only 135 hours a month, which is an average 2.3% less a month than in the same quarter in 2016.
The main reasons were more work-free holidays and less unpaid overtime.
