Britons have topped a poll revealing the excessively long hours that workers are doing in the developed world. An International Labour Organisation report has highlighted that more than a quarter (25.7 per cent) of UK workers regularly put in more than 48 working hours a week, followed by Israelis (25.2 per cent), Australians (20.4 per cent), Swiss (19.2 per cent) and US employees (18.1 per cent).