The phrase "average weekly hours" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing the typical number of hours worked in a week, often in the context of employment or labor statistics.
Example: "The average weekly hours for full-time employees in this sector have increased over the past year."
Alternatives: "typical weekly hours" or "mean weekly hours".
We don't: average weekly hours are still below their pre-recession level.
Over the course of the recession, average weekly hours worked are down 4percentt.
It is true that the resilience of employment partly reflects a fall in average weekly hours worked.
Detached from primary responsibility for daily caring, and in order to maximise earnings, UK men work the longest average weekly hours (pdf) in the EU.
The average weekly hours worked, which tend to climb before companies start hiring again, rose slightly, as did average weekly earnings.
Figure 1 plots from 1840 to the present the average weekly hours of a specific group of American workers: production and nonsupervisory workers in manufacturing industry.
Average weekly hours and average hourly earnings, for example, have shown little improvement in recent months, according to the Labor Department.
The annual growth rate in average hourly earnings fell to 2.4%, its lowest in six months, while average weekly hours worked declined to 34.3, the lowest in two and a half years.
The negative factors influencing the index were faster delivery times, a reduction in average weekly hours worked at factories and fewer expected orders for consumer goods as well as for nonmilitary capital goods.
Average weekly hours, sometimes a clue to future hiring, fell in March -- in fact, they fell so much that total hours worked declined even as the work force increased.
The average weekly hours of private-sector employees, which fell sharply during the Great Recession, are still falling in the city, even in the midst of strong economic expansion, according to the Independent Budget Office.
