A quarter of employees work part-time

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A quarter of employees work part-time

In 2020, 26.8% of employees worked part-time. This is a slight decrease of half a percentage point compared to 2019.

Part-time work concerns 42.5% of female employees and 11.8% of male employees.

Four-fifths time employment is the most popular part-time working arrangement, both for men and women.

For female employees, the main reasons for working part-time are “provision of child or dependent care” (24%), followed by “other personal or family-related reasons” (20.2%), and “the desired job is only offered on a part-time basis” (17.2%). For men, the main reasons are: “the desired job is offered on a part-time basis only” (21%), “other reasons” (14.1%) and “other personal or family-related reasons” (11.3%).