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Title    Say Goodbye to Spain's Glorious Three-Hour Lunch Break
Date    Sunday July 23 2017, @08:11PM
Author    Fnord666
Topic   
from the save-the-nap dept.
https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=17/07/23/1554255

"exec" writes:

Arthur T Knackerbracket has found the following story:

Is the typical Spanish daily schedule about to change forever? For decades, campaigners in the country have complained that the average Spaniard's habit of keeping extremely late hours and taking delightfully long lunch breaks was making everyday life harder for citizens. This week, change could finally be on the way, as 110 professional bodies in Catalonia have signed up to a plan to change the region's daily timetable by 2025, shortening the classic three-hour lunch break so that employees can finish work earlier in the evening.

Such a change would radically reshape ordinary people's lives—and controversially, it could drive a wedge between Catalonia and the rest of Spain, where the national government supports similar changes (and has adopted a shorter break for public offices) but hasn't yet fixed a timetable for action.

You could call the plan an end to national harmony, a blessed release for hard-pressed workers, or an attack on the Spanish way of life. Whatever you do, however, don't call it the end of the siesta.

-- submitted from IRC


Original Submission

Links

  1. "following story" - https://www.citylab.com/life/2017/07/say-goodbye-to-spains-glorious-three-hour-lunch-break/534120/
  2. "signed up to a plan" - http://www.20minutos.es/noticia/3092688/0/110-actores-economicos-sociales-catalanes-secundan-reforma-horaria-con-macrofirma/
  3. "2025" - http://www.reformahoraria.cat/objectiu-2025
  4. "similar changes" - https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2016/04/05/time-to-wake-up-spains-prime-minister-wants-to-end-the-siesta/?utm_term=.e9ed81543033
  5. "Original Submission" - https://soylentnews.org/submit.pl?op=viewsub&subid=21363

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