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Why can’t everyone just agree to a family-friendly, 40-hour workweek? Because then anyone who chose to work a 90-hour week would clean our clocks. Well, if yo
by swombat 17y ago
Why can’t everyone just agree to a family-friendly, 40-hour workweek? Because then anyone who chose to work a 90-hour week would clean our clocks.
Well, if you look at a fair chunk of Europe, everyone has agreed to work reasonable hours, largely, and the nutters like myself who work their socks off are few and far between. Of course, you could say that the rest of the world is about to clean Europe's clocks, but that's by no means certain.
- 321abc 17y agoUnfortunately, at least France and Germany seem to want to start emulating the US in this regard. So they're increasing length of their work weeks: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124835745710975827.html http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124835745710975827.html http://www.thelocal.de/national/20090731-20935.html http://www.thelocal.de/national/20090731-20935.html Also muddying the waters is that, by some measures, Americans have more leisure time than Europeans: http://www.examiner.com/x-14795-Page-One-Examiner~y2009m8d13-Those-ever-longer-working-hours-of-Americans http://www.examiner.com/x-14795-Page-One-Examiner~y2009m8d13...