[olmo]

I'm Spanish and I've software company. Here is my schedule:

9-14 morning work

14-15 lunch

15-18 evening work

18-20 (aprox) partners-only work

Dunno in construction or other sectors, in consultancy we work more hours and I've never seen anybody taking siesta on labor days. Some people make siesta when 2 of the following 3 things are true: Summer + Old people + Sunday.

[olmo]

I don't think that changing the time zone is going to make any productivity or 'family time' change. We work a lot of hours because there are more employees than companies. Market laws.

I think, however, that changing the time zone will improve our reputation. Currently we're at sync with sun time, but from the point of view of a tourist it means that we have lunch, get out of work, have dinner and go to bed at least 1 hour later than on 'normal countries', and this contributes to the fame of 'lazy country'.

Once we change the hour, after a period of adaptation, we will do everything pretty much the same but S&P will come an say... hey! look at Spain, now they deserve credit because they go to bed earlier, we should lend them money!.

Finally, we currently go into work at 9 as everyone else, but for us the sun is at 8. Nobody realizes because we have more sun hours (in winter).