Part-time employment as a % of total employment Source: OECD In 2006 countries showed a mixed percent of their workforce employed as part-time employees. OECD data refers to part-time employment as persons who usually work less than 30 hours per week in the main job (35 hours for Japan). The split which separates those with a large chunk of part-time employees is not easily definable and countries do not share similar economies, policies, histories, or geographic locations. OECD countries oscillate around the group’s total of 16.1%. The Netherlands’ workforce is comprised of the most part-time employees at 35.5%, followed by Australia and Switzerland at 27.1% and 25.5%, respectively. The economy with the lowest percent of part-time labor compared to the total workforce is the Slovak Republic where only 2.5% of employees are considered part-time. Other performers at the low end of the ranking include Hungary, with 2.7%, the Czech Republic,
