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April 21st, 2008
It’s commonly admitted that France is among the countries where employees are the most lucky concerning paid leaves. Many people around the world know this fact and just take it for granted, assuming that countries have different regulations according to their culture and government and that’s the way it is.. some have to be the lucky bastards while others slave all their life in a less amenable country.
For your information, If you don’t know, French People benefit from 5 weeks of paid vacations and furthermore they benefit too from time off in lieu for people working more than the 35 hours normal week working time. In some companies, it can double your paid holidays time.
So people from others countries wonder.
But nobody can figure out the real ground reasons of this situation.
As a French myself, knowing perfectly after more than 40 years working as an employee the subtleties of the attitude of my fellow countrymen dealing with work, I am in position to tell you the truth.
1. We have more holidays because we do appreciate them
On the contrary to many others people, French people know what to do with their holidays. Whereas Japanese or Us citizens mostly get bored after two weeks, we could find ourselves plenty of decadent occupations to use spare time. Occupations such as eating (we can hold 5 hours long lunch, can you believe that ?), drinking, reading books, having a nap, visiting our wonderful country, playing cards or “pétanque”, holding long and fruitful conversations (especially with women) or just watching the day passing by.
We do have a certain sense for appreciating life in itself, with no need to be over-busy.
So we really want and need holidays, and that’s why we get so much of it.
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