Occupational safety and health in Europe - state and trends 2023 
European Agency for Safety and Health at Work – EU-OSHA 34 
Figure 11: Establishment size and ‘Pressure due to time constraints’ – ESENER 2014 and 201934  
 
 
Figure 12: Establishment size and ‘Long or irregular working hours’ – ESENER 2014 and 201935  
 
Sectoral differences are also strong but not that large as between enterprise sizes  they vary for 
‘Pressure due to time constraints’ between 32% in agriculture to 54% in education and HHSW  
activities.  
Looking at countries, as indicated the  figure below, the three Nordic EU Member States are at the top 
of the EU27 countries, all three with rates of more than 70%. The lowest levels of less than 30% are 
reported for Italy, Lithuania and Slovakia.36