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> YMMV but the only time I ever experienced the myth that "working over 40 hours a week is the norm" was when I started working at a US-based company. Even in
by wott 5y ago
> YMMV but the only time I ever experienced the myth that "working over 40 hours a week is the norm" was when I started working at a US-based company.
Even in France, where the base legal hours are only 35 hours a week, intellectual/upper professions in a full-time position work an average of 43 hours a week.
That's the average which includes women, who work 10% less (in terms of number of hours worked) than men. If you only consider men, you reach an average week of 45 hours for those professions.
- africanboy 5y agothat is hours clocked in I guess, there's a similar pattern in Italy but they are not working more they are staying at the office longer they chose to so that they can skip other obligations (family for example) and as you said it's mostly a men thing I'm in a professional full-time position and nominally I should work 40 hours but actually we work less especially now that we are working from home nobody will ask you to do something on a friday afternoon "I'll see you on monday"