>In Germany we come to work at 9am, we work until 4pm with a 15 minute break for lunch 45 minute is the usual break in Germany, who can eat lunch in 15 minutes

>In Germany we come to work at 9am, we work until 4pm with a 15 minute break for lunch 45 minute is the usual break in Germany, who can eat lunch in 15 minutes? Usual workday is 8h work + 45 min break. So 9-17:45 would be usual. Or 8-16:45. There are people in union jobs with 35h work week though, that work one hour less, but if they go in at 9 they stay until 16:45. If you work over 6h in a day you have to do a minimum break of 30 minutes by law. So in your example I guess Americans stay 1:15h longer per day than what is normal in Germany.