Four Day Work Week
At last i've remembered to check up on how the French are doing since introducing a 35 hour work week. Seems the jury is still out.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/1859891.stm - note from 2002
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/35-hour_workweek - more critical
http://www.sergetheconcierge.com/2006/05/the_four_day_wo.html - ideas
increasingly i don't want a five day work week any more. But then there's that money thing.
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posted by xhile at 12:19 pm
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Apparently it's destroying their economy- according to the french hitchhiker I picked up two months back.
The combination of so-called "laziness" (slow work ethic - people actually valuing - life - over -work-) and the 35-hour week (which means less gets done overall) turns away big business, which goes elsewhere to get it's cheap & nasty work needs met- so if everyone else in the world was moving at the same speed, it'd be fine-
but in the globalised environment, the french are dying a slow economic death. Meaning less jobs, more poor to support, and a growing underclass of immigrants and youth- Unfortunate, because it's healthier overall to have that kind of work ethic-
m@
March 29, 2007 10:12 am
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