The article isn't clickbaity in the slightest - it's illegal to eat your lunch at your desk in France. That's a fact. Something illegal is still illegal. Relyi

The article isn't clickbaity in the slightest - it's illegal to eat your lunch at your desk in France. That's a fact. Something illegal is still illegal. Relying on non-enforcement at some companies is absolutely absurd - not only is enforcement of something like this going to vary (so some poor unlucky souls won't have the option at all), but you open yourself up to selective enforcement. It feel blindingly obvious that the correct thing to do is to remove this ridiculous law, and then, if you want "the minimal amenities to have a civilized lunch" - then legislate that, not some absurd illiberal law that removes a choice that is very desirable for some people. I say this as someone who sometimes wants to eat lunch at my desk so I can get off earlier, and other times will go out to eat with co-workers and enjoy their company. There's no reason to not give me that choice. > One female labor inspector noted in her report of 1901 that women saw the enforcement of the law as "tyrannical." Tyrannical indeed.