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Re:More bosses give four-day workweek a try by SnowProblem on Saturday February 22, 2020 @04:31AM (#22390149)
> The Netherlands and France are still alive and kicking. They have plenty of successful businesses.

Are they? I can't think of a single technology company coming out of either.

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Re:More bosses give four-day workweek a try by nmd on Saturday February 22, 2020 @04:44AM (#22390171)
Booking.com, TomTom GPS are both from Amsterdam. As is Adyen, the payments provider used Linkedin, Uber, Spotify, Microsoft. Philips is also from the Netherlands.
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Re:More bosses give four-day workweek a try by SnowProblem on Saturday February 22, 2020 @05:57AM (#22390371)
Booking.com - sold in 2005. TomTom - dying since smartphones. Philips - an old appliance company. Ayden - hadn't heard of it, but granted.

I hear of new companies from China all the time.

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Re:More bosses give four-day workweek a try by the-dude on Saturday February 22, 2020 @06:11AM (#22390421)
Philips is succesful in pivoting into medical.
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Re:More bosses give four-day workweek a try by nlitened on Saturday February 22, 2020 @05:10AM (#22390236)
Are any of them on 4-day work week?
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Re:More bosses give four-day workweek a try by jorkro on Saturday February 22, 2020 @11:26AM (#22391784)
Most likely not. Contrary to what was being said, 40 hours is still very much the norm in The Netherlands. Some people choose to work less (36 or 32 hours is common), but that obviously also means less income.

Source: I'm from The Netherlands.

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Re:More bosses give four-day workweek a try by tdons on Saturday February 22, 2020 @05:21AM (#22390266)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ASML_Holding
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Re:More bosses give four-day workweek a try by breakintheweb on Saturday February 22, 2020 @11:26AM (#22391782)
I'm sure you have just didn't realize they were French. Schneider Electric, Technicolor, Atos, etc.
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Re:More bosses give four-day workweek a try by the-dude on Saturday February 22, 2020 @06:11AM (#22390417)
Gitlab
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