How do we always end up back where we started? It's been shown over and over that the majority of office jobs are not productive beyond 6 hours/day. Hiring more people to "fill in the gaps" is a misunderstanding.
The problem is that for office jobs in France, the 35h week never became the 7h day. It just became the same 40h week as before, except you get an extra 12 days holiday a year - so not necessarily more productive.
Or, in most companies, you don't get any extra day off at all, but you're allowed to take two 15 min breaks per day. Which doesn't make a difference in practice.
I've never seen that for "cadres" - it's always a day rate ("forfait jour"). Maybe it was for non-cadre office workers? Like call centers or something like that?
