[twistedcheeslet]

As someone who regularly works 10-12 hours a day, shifting the end of the work day a further 1.5hrs sounds like a special kind of hell.

I'll be sticking to my hasty desk-lunch thank you very much.

[seszett]

Regularly working 10-12 hours a day is more banned than eating at your desk in France, so that's not actually a problem.

[martin8412]

You don't understand the point.. They don't work those hours.

[jchanimal]

If you cut your work hours in half, I'd guess your remaining work hours would be more productive on an hourly basis. There are probably all sorts of things making that a challenge to accomplish, but we shouldn't be surprised we see those results in a context that encourages it.

[twistedcheeslet]

Getting to that is the aspiration, don't get me wrong. At present however I'm in year 3 of bootstrapping a consulting/product startup - so every quarter is still somewhat existential.

The sooner we're reliably profitable, the sooner I can escape the hamster wheel.

[sheepdestroyer]

AFAIK, the standard is still 35 hours a week in France