35 hours is too much work for French
It seems that the 35 hour week is too much for most of the French. According to this survey by TNS-Sofres for the magazine Vivre Plus most people want to work only 6 hours a day.
No wonder the French economy is doing so badly. The unemployment rate may be coming down but its still 8.9%.
September 4th, 2006 at 7:51 pm
Yes… but they enjoy life more… Here on this side of the pond (US), we work long hours and well, one could say we’re productive… But, what kind of life is it when you race through a MacDonald’s drive-through to pick up dinner, eat it while watching TV because you’re too tired to do anything and go to sleep… Only to repeat the same thing the day after… And the weekends… well, that’s when we do our errands… Here, people count the days until their retirement (if they have a pension) so that they can enjoy life then…. years or decades from now… and they hope they’ll be healthy enough to enjoy it… I’m with the French…