Working Life Barometer in the Baltic Countries 2002 (pdf) - mol.fi

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The situation in Latvia has, on the whole, remained more or less as before; and
in Estonia there has been a slight decrease in work intensity.
60%
40%
20%
0%
-20%
-40%
-60%
45% 43%
WORK INTENSITY
37%
33%
-23% -22% -24% -24%
34%
-34%
43%
-23%
LATVIA ESTONIA LITHUANIA
1998 2002 1998 2002 1998 2002
is too high
is too low
When the issue is examined in the case of men and women separately, it
comes to light that in Latvia, where the work intensity is the highest among
the Baltic countries, the women's situation has stayed exactly the same during
recent years. For the men, a slight reduction in intensity is observable, even
though 41 % of Latvia's working men still felt the work to be too intensive. In
Estonia, too high a work intensity was now experienced less commonly than
in the other two countries. For both the men and the women, the proportion
feeling that the intensity was too great had decreased a little. There, for both
genders, one in three working people thought that the work was too intensive.
The changes in Lithuania, therefore, have been the greatest. In the previous
survey, it was noticed that Lithuanian men definitely had the most relaxed
working life in the Baltic countries. This has changed considerably in the last
few years. In this study, at the beginning of 2002, 44 % of the Lithuanian men
felt the work intensity to be too great; just over three years before, only just
over one-quarter (27 %) thought so. Work has become more intensive for the
women, too, in recent years. According to this survey, working life in Lithua-