[em-bee]

where do people get to decide how much to work? pretty much everywhere working hours are dictated by the employer.

if people want to work 5 days a week, it's because 5 days is the norm, and noone gives much choice.

the norm used to be 6 days, then 5.5 days, and it was a big campaign in germany to get it down to 5.

btw the current norm is actually 35 hours for office work, 7 hours per day, or, if you do 8 hours per day 4.5 days. now they want to shave another 7 hours of that to 28.

all such a regulation does is to define what is the default. it does not dictate that i am only allowed to work those hours. i am still free to negotiate less hours if i want to. negotiating more is harder because of overtime rules but it's possible.