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I heard it slightly different: French people work to live and German people live to work.

• baxtr 8y ago
  Yeah you’re right. That’s probably the more accurate version of it
• jlangenauer 8y ago
  What rubbish. Germans are fiercely protective of their work/life balance.
  • xtracto 8y ago
    I worked I Germany for 4 years. At some point, a German colleague and I went on a visit to a French Institute. Their schedule: 9.00am everybody arrived. 9.30-10.30 coffee/chat time 10.30-12.00 do sone work 12.00-1.30 lunch time 1.30-3.30 some more work. 3.30-4.30 coffee/chat time. 4.30-5.00 wrap up work for the day 5.00 everybody left. After 3 weeks working with this schedule, my German co-worker commented that she had no idea how French managed to get anything done.
    • agumonkey 8y ago
      That institute is probably high on the exception scale. My mother has 20minutes to eat and there's no restaurant in her company. That said French people don't have the work 101% mentality but slacking off is not the norm either.
      • mamon 8y ago
        Here's how work supposedly looks like in a French factory https://www.cnbc.com/id/100474481 https://www.cnbc.com/id/100474481
        • agumonkey 8y ago
          I remember that affair.. I'm sure taylor is an innocent person telling the truth and only the truth ;)
  • maxxxxx 8y ago
    What I have heard from Germans working in France was that the French didn't work very much while being at work. Or at least it wasn't obvious to them how anything got done.