Medium-sized quibble; an individual working 2000 hour years is actually spending about 22.8% of their time working. If you subtract out 8 hours per day for sleep, they spend about 34% of their waking hours on work. These are, of course, overestimates, as the young and the elderly often do not work.
When I look at it from the perspective of having to work since 18 to 69 (which is when I can retire in my country), that's 51 years that I have to plan everything _around_ the fact that I spend the daytime of most weeks from mon-fri working. That I have to squeese whatever hobbies I have, whatever friends and family I'd like to spend time with into the little space in a weekend or the few hours I have after work, and suddenly it no longer feels like I only spend 22.8% of my time working.
Unless something is rather strange in your country, that is not when you can retire, that is the age you can collect a taxpayer-funded old age pension. Retirement is an amount of money, not an age - if you won the lottery, presumably you would not be conscripted and forced to work until age 69?
Not even counting commute times, there is a lot of undercounted prep-for-work hours. WFH, I am ready to login within 10 minutes from my alarm clock after basic hygiene. If I go into the office, significantly more time on preparing appropriate dress, grooming, whatever.
After work, I need additional time to wind down from the commute +work stress.
