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This is true for most technology always-on businesses... Also why they get paid a ton in most cases
But should it be true? Why should businesses people work for expect or require them to use more than the minimum amount of time required for a full-time job, which should be lower anyway?
You can argue that it shouldn't be true, but the fact that this is presented as breaking news about Google is ridiculous. This is true about many positions in the US.
I don't get it either. I work in IT in France and do 39 hours a week. It's fairly close to that google figure.
And we have one of the most protective unions and so on here in France.
This is absolutely not unusual in EU to see people working 40+ hours a week and I'm sure there is much worse.
I agree that we should all work less than 8 hours a day, no matter the field honestly, but that's just how it is right now.
Now the main difference is we probably have much more holidays than in the US but that's a different story.