Glossary:Hours worked by employees - EBS
Total hours worked by employees represents the number of hours actually worked by employees, for the output of the statistical unit during the reference period.
Time spent on adjacent work, indirectly contributing to the output (e.g. planning, preparation, administrative and alike), as well as time spent without actual work, but deemed and remunerated as such by the statistical unit (e.g. short breaks, short disruptions due to slack in production, trainings and alike) is included.
Time spent on work, be it adjacent work, without actual remuneration (e.g. unpaid overtime) is also included.
Remunerated time spent without actual work and not deemed as such by the statistical unit (e.g. annual leave, sick leave, maternity leave, official holidays, longer breaks, meal breaks, strikes, commuting and alike) is excluded.
Infra-annual statistics may not be able to take into account all these items such as unpaid overtime.