Information from the microcensus
Fewer people work overtime
More work is required in fewer and fewer jobs. In most cases, if you still do overtime. But there are still exceptions.
Only for a minority of employees in Germany are overtime for everyday life according to official data. Around everyone worked more last year than was stipulated in the employment contract, as the Federal Statistical Office announced.
The basis is your own assessments from the 2024 edition of the microcensus, the annual budget survey by the statistical offices. Undergraded, almost 4.4 million people regularly did overtime. This is a share of 11 percent of almost 39.1 million employees. A year earlier, there were around 200,000 more employees who worked regularly longer. For men, the proportion of overtime is currently slightly higher at 13 percent than for women, of whom only every tenth overtime has worked.
Working time accounts widespread
Most of the time overtime end up in a working time account, so it can be compensated for later as free time. 71 percent of people with over -work called this form. 16 percent, on the other hand, were rewarded directly for the additional work. According to their own information, 19 percent of those affected worked unpaid overtime. This had reported 20 percent in the previous year. Mixed forms and thus several answers were also possible.
For 45 percent of the all -workers, the matter is done with a maximum of five hours a week. Every seventh (15 percent) also worked more than 15 overtime hours a week. The overtime for financial and insurance services is particularly widespread, least of all in the hospitality industry.
dpa
Source: Stern
