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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.
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(Score: 2) by Bot on Monday July 24 2017, @09:15PM
So spain should have always been less well off than, say, Italy, which has no such break. A quick glance at economic indicators says it is completely unrelated. A productive society is like a race car. It covers distance faster, it breaks easier, it never covers as much distance as a diesel taxi.
> post industrial society
> no jobs for everyone
> rational answer: work less, take turns.
> actual answer: make workers replaceable, make employed people work overtime, make unemployed people spend time in barely relevant activities making them eligible for work
work is the way the elite DoSes the rest.
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