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This is completely false. French workers (at mid-management level and above - not hourly workers) work long hours. Longer than German and Nordic countries, for
by donmatito 10y ago
This is completely false. French workers (at mid-management level and above - not hourly workers) work long hours. Longer than German and Nordic countries, for example, where leaving at 5pm is the norm and leaving later is more a sign of poor work planning than of dedication.
I think workday hours are similar to American employees, but work less in the weekends and have more vacations.
- toomuchtodo 10y ago> French workers (at mid-management level and above - not hourly workers) work long hours. Why?
- donmatito 10y agoWhy what? What do they work long hours? I don't know, "culture".
- riskneural 10y agoLeaving at 5pm is the norm in Germany only in very particular circumstances. Most people I know are stuck until 18:30 or so.
- donmatito 10y agoInteresting. I worked for a multinational, we had a (brilliant) German intern who worked in our FR headquarters, very long hours. Then she moved back to Germany in a local division, where she was always the last one closing the lights, by a long shot. It might be the effect of headquarter vs local company, perhaps, but 5pm is what I saw in most plants in Germany.
- lintiness 10y agostuck? i'm amazed at how negatively most europeans view "work".
- riskneural 10y agoOr how positively we view life.
- dijit 10y agoThis is not my experience. I work for a French multinational games company and I'm situated in Sweden. It's astonishingly common for my French counterparts to "arrive" at there computer at 10:30 each day and head out the door shortly before 17:00. Not to mention the 1.5hour or so lunch they tend to take. This is a sample of maybe 20 people, and maybe it's a culture of the company more than the country, but I've noticed they like to shake hands with everybody on the floor before starting their day, and they also like to take a coffee first and have a chat. For me though, I operate "remote" and when they are not available on Lync/Skype then they may as well be not working because they're.. not.. working. it is a stark contrast to my team who are jacked in before 9, and save for a few hourly strolls to the canteen and lunchtime do not leave until 18:00. (unless something breaks then we stay, which is common in crunch times.)