take on the 30 hour workweek

seems like a bunch of Euro countries have decided that it's time to give way to Asia as they've announced a bunch of new initiatives to cut their workhours even further..   France has new laws which prohibits workers from responding to emails after 6pm, Sweden is considering a maximum 30 hour workweek and Holland has proudly had their people on four day work weeks for ever..   There are countries which have minimum vacation days that workers MUST take and the entire country of Spain naps for two hours in the middle of the workday..

I get that there has to be some value in time-off but this is getting ridiculous.   When the hell did a forty hour work week become excessive??  Let's not make it sound like the American workforce are being abused and it just might be that because we work harder than anybody else that we aren't always calling for help anytime a bully pushes us on the game of Risk playground..   If we ever decided that hard-work isn't our style and cut back to a 30 hour workweek then put your kids in Mandarin classes, cause they are going to need it..

the guy in this interview has it right

http://newyork.cbslocal.com/video?autoStart=true&topVideoCatNo=default&clipId=10040638#.U0gvl4yAJXE.gmail