Germans living in the east of the country worked on average two weeks longer than their western counterparts in 2015, dpa cited the eastern newspaper Thueringer Allgemeine as reporting Saturday. Employees in the states that made up the former communist East German state worked on average 1,436 hours in 2015, 77 hours more than those in the states of the former West Germany, who worked 1,359 hours. The newspaper based its report on official labour force figures from each federal state.
