Half of the world's workforce works too much or too little: ILO report

The ILO report also examined the mismatches between workers' actual hours of work and their preferred hours of work

Working nine-to-five isn’t the norm for more than half of the global workforce, according to a report from the International Labour Organization.

Average hours of work globally fall well within the normal range, at approximately 43.9 hours per week prior to the pandemic, the ILO said in a study on work-life balance published on Friday. At the same time, about a third of workers have a work week of more than 48 hours, while a fifth work part-time or fewer than 35 hours per week.

“Although long hours of work decreased slightly early in the pandemic and short hours of