40-hour work-week as a tool of emiserating economic growth

It’s pretty much a myth that the French only work 4 days a week.

Here’s an article that shows that they work an average of 39.5 hours a week, less than an hour less than the EU average. And that’s all workers, unionized blue-collar and not – the office-type workers (such as those described above) work an average of 44 hours/week.