Finns work three and a half hours overtime without pay each week
One in five Finns believe work will consume more time in future
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The average Finn works for 3.4 hours each week without being compensated for it by his or her employer.
White-collar workers and managers spend nearly five hours of their free time each week working without pay, compared with two hours for blue-collar employees.
These figures are based on a survey commissioned by Helsingin Sanomat, in which asked respondents were asked how many hours of their free time they need to spend working each week. Each respondent could freely determine what he or she considered to mean working during free time.
Juhani Pehkonen, the head of the opinion unit at TNS Gallup, commented that white-collar employees and managers are rarely compensated for working overtime. "The work must simply be done, and finished by a certain time.”
Men spend twice as much of their free time working than women: the average for women is 2.2 hours, with men raking up 4.6 hours per week. Over fifty-year-olds work more without pay than younger colleagues. At companies where some employees have been dismissed over the past few years, remaining employees work more during their free time compared with companies where there have been no job cuts.
The clear majority of the respondents, or 64 percent, believe that the time they spend working will remain the same during the next two to three years. One in five believe that work will consume more of their time in the near future.
Young adults and farmers were more inclined to believe that work will require more of their free time in the future
Helsingin Sanomat
Finns work three and a half hours overtime without pay each week