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Working Life in France
Working in France is very different from the UK, with an emphasis on office courtesies and a rigid structure to the working day.
The official working week in France is just 35 hours and you don’t necessarily get brownie points for staying late at the office. Most working routines include a rigidly observed lunch break to allow you to eat properly and digest well.
Office niceties are considered extremely important, with formal address routinely used – especially to superiors.
However, women often encounter bars to promotion and sexual harassment (harcélement sexuel) is only recently legally addressed.
