Mark Pack

Do we really work the longest hours in Europe?

By | Mon 6th April 2009 - 2:10 pm

Comedian Dave Cohen was on the case in The Guardian last week:

Everybody knows we Brits work the longest hours in Europe. We’ve read it so many times it must be true, mustn’t it?

I am a comedy writer and performer, not an investigative journalist. I once read an article by John Pilger and I used to cover meetings of Llantrisant village council for the Pontypridd Observer, although announcing the construction of a roundabout on Coedcae Lane was as close as I ever got to a scoop.

But in the course of making a documentary for the BBC about my shambolic efforts to try and bring some order into the everyday chaos of my life, I stumbled upon the truth: Brits do not work the longest hours in Europe. We don’t even come second. Or third. In fact, by almost every statistical definition, we’re barely average.

You can read the full story here.

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