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

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

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.

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.

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