Wow, that must be depressing. In my country (Australia), our full time work week was recently re-defined from a maximum of 40 hours down to 38 hours per week (y

Wow, that must be depressing. In my country (Australia), our full time work week was recently re-defined from a maximum of 40 hours down to 38 hours per week (you can work a 'reasonable' amount of overtime, but it's discouraged because it usually accumulates as time-in-lieu so you can take those hours off at your leisure later on), you get a minimum of four weeks (paid) annual leave and at least 9% superannuation on top of your wage paid into your retirement fund (possibly going up to 12% in 2019). I'd hate to feel pressured into working crazy hours like that.