I have no idea how they measure their work-life balance index, but IIRC Spain still has a limited degree of the siesta showing up in places. Like, my understanding is that your random office in Madrid wouldn’t do it, but in a town back in the backcountry may have businesses that do so.
In modern Spain, the midday nap during the working week has largely been abandoned among the adult working population.[16] According to a 2009 survey, 16.2 percent of Spaniards polled claimed to take a nap “daily”, whereas 22 percent did so “sometimes”, 3.2 percent “weekends only” and the remainder, 58.6 percent, “never”. The share of those who claimed to have a nap daily had diminished by 7 percent compared to a previous poll in 1998. Nearly three out of four siesta-takers claimed to take siestas on the sofa rather than the bed.
English-language media often conflates the siesta with the two to three hour lunch break that is characteristic of Spanish working hours,[18] even though the working population is less likely to have time for a siesta and the two events are not necessarily connected. In fact, the average Spaniard works longer hours than almost all their European counterparts (typically 11-hour days, from 9 am to 8 pm).
Yeah, It depends on which sector you are focusing.
The office sector normally has an 8-hour workday, from 8am to 5pm with a mandatory hour for lunch or similar.
Other offices may have a 7 to 3pm with no time for lunch, like in the Banking or Public sector.
But, in the countryside people that work on farms and greenhouses normally work more than that, although, that is a minimal percentage of the population.
In hot areas of the country, like the south or the spanish plateau is imposible and dangerous to work at midday on open fields, because of UV radiation and high temperatures, so normally they stop working and return home to eat, rest and go back to work later when the UV hazard has decreased. Those people are the ones that tipically have siestas, because of the long hours during the day 7am to 8pm and the physical effort that they need to perform in the workours.
Spain? Wtf I’m shocked 😮
If you’re not working the balance is pretty good /s kind of
I have no idea how they measure their work-life balance index, but IIRC Spain still has a limited degree of the siesta showing up in places. Like, my understanding is that your random office in Madrid wouldn’t do it, but in a town back in the backcountry may have businesses that do so.
googles
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siesta
Huh.
Yeah, It depends on which sector you are focusing.
The office sector normally has an 8-hour workday, from 8am to 5pm with a mandatory hour for lunch or similar. Other offices may have a 7 to 3pm with no time for lunch, like in the Banking or Public sector.
But, in the countryside people that work on farms and greenhouses normally work more than that, although, that is a minimal percentage of the population.
In hot areas of the country, like the south or the spanish plateau is imposible and dangerous to work at midday on open fields, because of UV radiation and high temperatures, so normally they stop working and return home to eat, rest and go back to work later when the UV hazard has decreased. Those people are the ones that tipically have siestas, because of the long hours during the day 7am to 8pm and the physical effort that they need to perform in the workours.