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I hope so, but I'm not sure it'll be common for those outside of the tech class.

For one, there was already a massive shift that nobody noticed. A few decades ago people complained about how awful and soul-crushing 9 to 5s were. Well, someone decided to reform that. Now 9 to 6 and 8 to 5 are everywhere. I've even known some people who get two 5 minute breaks at work, and now their job runs from 9 to 6:10.

Insanity.

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In my country it's quite common for white collar workers to have a half day on Friday, or at least finish an hour earlier. Unless you work for a tech company... then it's 9-6 as usual.

I do 8:45 to 7 and I dont even understand your point. I worked in France and in Hong Kong, I never heard of 9 to 5, and we re supposed to do 35 hours :D

Or no lunch break ?

Why would you work that long though? I would leave that corporation immediately.

In France, as a "cadre" (most tech people are cadre for some reason) you're paid by the day and not by the hour, hence there's no cap to 35h.

You do however get RTT (basically paid holidays) to get back the hours that you do above 35h (usually half a day a week to compensate for the 40h classical work week)

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