I don't know about industrial jobs, but everyone I know in IT, in marketing, ... Never really worked 35h, instead my contract says 39h (35h + 4h overtime) - for

I don't know about industrial jobs, but everyone I know in IT, in marketing, ... Never really worked 35h, instead my contract says 39h (35h + 4h overtime) - for reference the worktime before 35h was 40h. And people who work even longer hours, have more overtime hours. What the law changed is not how long you can work, but where the overtime hours threshold is. This article, which claims the 35h worktime is fading, obviously doesn't know what it talks about, it has never been the norm in the "real world", outside of some specific areas such as public jobs. Which probably why they don't have any graph to show the actual worked hours change over the years, as that would go against what they claim.