We asked 500 respondents about their employment situation and workload and found out what time people spend on work.As the result of the survey we found out that 36% of the respondents is employed or owns a business, while 64% is not employed (among them pensioners and housewives).
As it turned out, employed respondents spend on average 7 hours and 50 minutes at work every day. Men spend more time at work than women: namely, men spend 8 hours and 10 minutes at work, while women spend 7 hours and 25 minutes. Considering the existing employment policies and working conditions in the country, data concerning the respondents’ work schedule isn’t surprising: almost every second employed person (43%) works every day, including weekends. Men between ages 55 and 64 spend the most time - 9,4 hours at work during the day. Naturally, during the work hours some time is spend on non-working activities as well. The employed spend about 32 minutes each day on non-working activities, which is about 7,7% of workday. 17,6% of the respondents think that they do not spend even a minute on non-working activities at work. Young people between ages 25 and 34 and people near the pension age (55-64) spend the most time – 37 minutes – on non-work activities every day.
The analyses of the issue by gender showed that women spend on average 32 minutes on non-working activities, while men spend comparably less – 30 minutes on average. All in all, during the year, a person spends about 103 days at work. The average number of days people spend on different activities in a year shows that an average Georgian spends 2/3 of his/her life on just sleep and work. Eating, traveling, walking, getting ready and other activities take 51 days in total which leaves just 85 days for everything else.
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