21% of employed people worked on weekends in 2025

In 2025, 21.3% of employed people in the EU aged 15-64 years old usually worked during weekends.

Working on weekends was more common among service and sales workers (47.6%), skilled agricultural, forestry and fishery workers (47.2%) and people with elementary occupations (25.7%).

Source dataset: lfsa_qoe_3b3

Only 18.5% of employees usually worked during weekends. By contrast, the share was higher among self-employed people: 45.8% for those with employees (employers) and 35.9% for those without employees (own-account workers), as well as 45.1% among contributing family workers.

Across the EU countries, Greece had the highest share of employees working on weekends (31.5%), followed by Cyprus (31.3%) and Malta (29.2%). Meanwhile, the lowest rates were recorded in Lithuania (3.0%), Poland (4.2%) and Hungary (6.2%).

Source dataset: lfsa_qoe_3b3

For self-employed people with employees working on weekends, Greece had the highest share at 75.0%, followed by Belgium (65.9%) and France (61.0%), while Hungary (9.9%), Slovakia (15.0%) and Poland (15.1%) recorded the lowest shares.

This article marks the International Workers' Day celebrated annually on 1 May.