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The phrase "average working hours" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing the typical number of hours that employees work in a given time period, often in the context of labor statistics or workplace policies.
Example: "According to the latest report, the average working hours for full-time employees in the country is 40 hours per week."
Alternatives: "typical working hours" or "mean working hours".
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Information on individual characteristics (age, height, weight, marital state, having preschool children, level of education, exercise in leisure time), work conditions (duration of employment in current work, average working hours per week), perceived physical exertion, and psychosocial load at work was also collected.
Table 3 Average working hours by gender Working hours Male Female Total N Mean S.E.
Average working hours of physicians working in a hospital in Germany is about 55 hours, which is similar to the working hours we found for single handed practices in rural areas [ 16].
Missed workdays and impaired work performance were combined with data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics with respect to percentage of population working for pay and average working hours per week.
One study examined whether a change in working hours had occurred during the year preceding the AMI and found that men who experienced a >3-hours' increase in average working hours had a 2.5-fold higher risk of AMI compared with men who experienced little change in their working hours (59).
Table 5 Average working hours by flexi-time and telehomework Working hours Flexi-time Telehomework Yes No Yes No Mean S.E.
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This female labor intensity effect represents an average reduction of 6.5% of mean working hours, which is equivalent to an average fall of almost 3 h per week.
Information about age, sex, and the average daily working hours (working five days per week) of the farm workers as well as the specialization of the farm (e.g. breeding farm, dairy farm) and whether it was an organic or conventional farm were recorded.
Working hours of all women working full-time fell from an average of 41 hours a week in 2001 to 40 hours in 2011, the study suggests, while the average weekly working hours of mothers working full-time have remained stable at 39 hours a week.
The information included average weekly working hours, a description of job functions and average weekly time used for each function, personal handling of pesticides (e.g. application and mixing), re-entry intervals before entering greenhouses where pesticides had been applied, procedure for handling of plant cultures recently treated with pesticides, and the use of personal protective equipment.
Shadow pricing was used to cost this time by multiplying the number of hours of care provided by an informal care cost per hour which was estimated by dividing gross national average weekly wage rates (averaged across males and females see online supplementary appendix table A1) by national average weekly working hours.
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