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3/30/2014

Topic Reading-Vol.718-3/30/2014

Dear MEL School’s Topic Readers,
Busting the myth of France’s 35-hour workweek
How long do you want to work a week? If you work from nine to six with an hour lunch break, you work for eight hours a day, 40 hours a week and 1,920 hours a year (48 weeks). That’s about the average work hours for US and Japanese workers. Countries where shorter work hours are set by law such as France or Germany, they work fewer hours, or they are paid overtime payment.
It is often said that people in northern European countries are industrious and those who live in the south are easygoing. However because of the border-removing effort by EU, people’s lifestyles across Europe seem to have been chagned. Instead of having an over-an-hour lunch break, more professional workers take their sandwiches or take-out meals at their desks and work even after five. It seems that the more globalized the world is, the more converged work requirements, practices are styles are.
Enjoy reading and learning about the changes in work practices in Europe.

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