France Wants To Ban Work Emails After 6 P.M.

[88m3]

French workers have long enjoyed shorter workweeks and plenty more vacation time than Americans. Now, 1 million workers in France may be free from any work-related emails or phone calls after 6 p.m., The Guardian reports.
Unions and employers there have agreed in principle that no work communications are sent after work hours.

The deal would affect a portion of the technology and consultancy sectors and includes the French branches of Google, Deloitte, and PwC, according to The Guardian. It will not take effect until it is ruled on by a judge.

The unions argued that bosses were infringing on workers' rights by contacting them through mobile devices after hours.

Despite France's famed 35-hour workweek having been effectively demolished in 2008, this chart from the economics website FRED shows the French (represented by the red line) still work notably less than Americans (blue). Their hours are similar to other members of the eurozone, and the French put in more annual hours than the Germans (green):

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[Camile.Bidan]

lazy ass country.

 

[dtownreppin214]

lazy ass continent.

fixed.

take 6 capuchino breaks a day and wonder why your country has gone to shyt brehs.

 

[Rayzah]

Not a bad idea

 

[Hiphoplives4eva]

I feel sorry for anyone investing in french companies..

 

[Jhoon]

Only Americans have a fetish for long hours and low pay. And then cliam everyone is envious of them

 

[Reality]

Only Americans have a fetish for long hours and low pay. And then cliam everyone is envious of them

Truth.

Not enough people are passionate enough about their work to be so ride or die about 50+ hour work weeks. fukking losers.

 

[acri1]

Only Americans have a fetish for long hours and low pay. And then cliam everyone is envious of them

You forgot lack of vacation time and low job security...how could people in other countries not be jealous?

 

[babylon1]

lazy ass country.

you and the rest of the capitalists can sleep in a fire

 

[Camile.Bidan]

You forgot lack of vacation time and low job security...how could people in other countries not be jealous?

i can't be envious of lazy ass people.

i put in 50 hours a week a normal week.

I have been vacation for weeks now, and I have 1) spent 12 hours each day in the library preparing for a cert. exam(equity compesation cert) and 2) maintained contact with my job.

Fukk being lazy on vacation. oh, and this is after putting in 70 to 80 hours a week every week
During busy season. Fukk. I can't stand the lazy-ass sloths

 

[acri1]

i can't be envious of lazy ass people.

i put in 50 hours a week a normal week.

I have been vacation for weeks now, and I have 1) spent 12 hours each day in the library preparing for a cert. exam(equity compesation cert) and 2) maintained contact with my job.

Fukk being lazy on vacation. oh, and this is after putting in 70 to 80 hours a week every week
During busy season. Fukk. I can't stand the lazy-ass sloths

http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2012/feb/01/top-five-regrets-of-the-dying

2. I wish I hadn't worked so hard.

"This came from every male patient that I nursed. They missed their children's youth and their partner's companionship. Women also spoke of this regret, but as most were from an older generation, many of the female patients had not been breadwinners. All of the men I nursed deeply regretted spending so much of their lives on the treadmill of a work existence."

If working 70 hour weeks makes you feel like you're superior to everybody else, that's your business, but you'll probably regret it when you get older.

Personally I'd rather put in my 40 hours and spend the rest of my time doing what I want. After all, you can get more money but you can never get lost time back.

 

[Robbie3000]

i can't be envious of lazy ass people.

i put in 50 hours a week a normal week.

I have been vacation for weeks now, and I have 1) spent 12 hours each day in the library preparing for a cert. exam(equity compesation cert) and 2) maintained contact with my job.

Fukk being lazy on vacation. oh, and this is after putting in 70 to 80 hours a week every week
During busy season. Fukk. I can't stand the lazy-ass sloths

1000 years ago, you would have made the perfect serf in medieval
Europe.

800 years before that an even better slave in Rome.

But hey if you are happy slaving away at a big four so one day you can make partner and make a couple hundred grand a year, good for you!

 

[pike]

They are the weakest cac country. They stay getting beatened in wars the vietmanese kicked thier asses, germans, etc

 

[Tommy Fits]

Someone needs to build a boot strap factory there, lazy ass frogs.

 

[88m3]

Thankfully I have the freedom of working for myself.


A majority of Americans have been brainwashed into endless servitude and debt.