Euro rivals 'work harder' than UK staff

In the UK, workers take five days to produce what French, German and US counterparts do in four. This makes the UK a whopping twenty per cent less efficient than their closest economic rivals.

However, measuring productivity isn’t an exact science. To determine output per hour, or per day, workplace boffins must figure out what output is as a whole. On the modern work landscape, where workers are more likely to offer services than produce goods, this can be difficult. And, in the UK, the service sector is the dominant industry, producing circa 78% of GDP as of 2014.