Dear MEL School’s
Topic Readers,
Busting the myth
of France’s 35-hour workweek
How long do you
want to work a week? If you work from nine to six with an hour lunch break, you
work for eight hours a day, 40 hours a week and 1,920 hours a year (48 weeks).
That’s about the average work hours for US and Japanese workers. Countries
where shorter work hours are set by law such as France or Germany, they work
fewer hours, or they are paid overtime payment.
It is often said that
people in northern European countries are industrious and those who live in the
south are easygoing. However because of the border-removing effort by EU,
people’s lifestyles across Europe seem to have been chagned. Instead of having
an over-an-hour lunch break, more professional workers take their sandwiches or
take-out meals at their desks and work even after five. It seems that the more globalized
the world is, the more converged work requirements, practices are styles are.
Enjoy reading and
learning about the changes in work practices in Europe.
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