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What rubbish. Germans are fiercely protective of their work/life balance.
by jlangenauer 8y ago
What rubbish. Germans are fiercely protective of their work/life balance.
- xtracto 8y agoI 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 agoThat 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.
- maxxxxx 8y agoWhat 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.