DAILY TIME STUDY
July 1st, 2004
BY KEITH NUTHALLACCORDING to popular prejudice, Britons are work obsessed and driven, spending too many evenings in the office, while the French are lazy clock watchers, with an eye on that two hour lunch break - but this could be pure myth according to a European Union (EU) study. Brussels statistical agency Eurostat has released figures on the average time working people spend on daily activities and they defy the image of overworked British employees. On average, employed male Britons taking part in a Eurostat time survey logged an average 5 hours and 42 ...
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