Four-day week becoming 'very common' among Dutch workers

Four-day weeks are becoming 'very common' among Dutch workers, says an economist.

According to Eurostat, people aged 20 to 64 in the Netherlands clock up an average of just 32.1 hours a week in their main job - the shortest in the entire EU.

Across the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), no country has a higher rate of part-time workers.

And many full-time staff are now squeezing their hours into just four days, leaving Fridays free.

'The four-day work week has become very, very common,' explained Bert Colijn, an economist at Dutch bank ING.