The pie charts below show the percentage of time working adults spent on different activities in a particular country in 1958 and 2008. Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features and make comparisons where relevant

The following diagram displays the hours in per cent spent by workers in their life in one country in 1958 and 2008. To summarise, the most noticeable trend is that people used to spend the majority of their time working.

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the amount of sleeping hours has been reduced through the years, it is still in second place among the most time-consuming activities. In 1958 work and sleep together took about 65 per cent of all time, the sum of these didn't change much in 2008, despite the fact of increasing job hours. Another evidence of work-focused behaviour in 2008 is that travel to the workplace required 4 times as long as it was previously. There is

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a visible tendency for spending more time alone with decreasing scores for going out with family or friends and a small growth of the "other interests" category. On the most recent chart, it was shown that the percentage for home rest developed to 13%, which is 5% higher than it was earlier.