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I work 8am - 5pm with 30min to 2hrs to eat. I'm a software engineer in France.

Usually the work hours for office work is more 9am - 6pm or even 6:30 at the places where I've worked.

Very interesting. I always thought the stereotype of France was that they don't work a lot. That sounds very similar to my experiences.

The stereotype is that we don't work a lot because we're on strike ;) (Aside: There are a lot of strikes and demonstrations because our industrial and public sectors are very unionized and that's how unions negotiate here: a good strike (with or without demonstration) as a show of force.)

We also have a (theoretical) 35 hrs work-week which means around 7,5 weeks of holidays per year.

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