text: **Figure 9: Average working time and work during unsocial hours – Eurostat LFS**
  
  Two country examples might illustrate these developments (all data for 2019): Slovakia, a country with 
  a high share of process-based industries, reports that 15.0% of its workforce is working at night and 29% 
  in shifts; for the EU27 this rate is 5.2% respectively and 18.3%.25 Regarding work on Sundays three 
  other countries are at the top of the EU27, the Netherlands, Ireland and Spain; they report between 18% 
  and 21% (EU27 average = 13.5%); all three countries have an above-average share of sectors like 
  transport, tourism and agriculture.26 
  
  For all these types of work it should be take into account that other groups of**workers under non-**
  **standard types of employment contracts**(self-employed, agency workers, students, pensioners, 
  undeclared workers) might have taken over work at these atypical working times. 
  
  Concluding, it can be stated that there is a**slight trend towards a reduction of weekly working hours**
  **for regularly employed**workers, including a stable commuting time. Working hours at atypical times 
  show a mixed picture. Looking at most types of employees,**atypical working time decreased, except**
  **work on Sundays**. For self-employed with employees, the working time at atypical hours is in general 
  at a higher level. The number of employees in night work is decreasing. More employees in service and 
  client-related occupations at night or in shifts but also here the atypical times are slightly decreasing. 