Last September, a parliamentary commission recommended that the government turn back the clocks by one hour and introduce a regular eighthour workday.
For the time being, the Spanish government is treating the campaign seriously but it hasn’t taken any action yet.
Spain’s time zone issue explains why everything in Spain happens later, from meal times to broadcast entertainment (primetime doesn’t start until 10 pm).Many urban Spaniards complain of a neverending workday that begins in the morning but is interrupted by a traditional latemorning break and then again by the midday siesta — a twohour long lunch and nap that usually start at 2 pm. If workers return to their desks at 4 pm, they end up working late into the evening.
Under the proposed new schedule, the lunchtime break would be cut to an hour or less. The interruptionfilled Spanish workday would be replaced by something closer to a 9to5 schedule.Ignacio Buqueras, president of the Association for the Rationalization of Spanish Working Hours,told The New York Times that changing the Spanish schedule would be good news for working mothers. It would also allow families more free time together and boost Spain’s economic recovery.
Maria Angles Duran, a sociologist with the Spanish National Research Council, is skeptical that changing the time zone will reverse low productivity, which she attributes more to the structure of the serviceoriented economy. But she agreed that a more normal work schedule would help women, who often complain that their husbands deliberately schedule meetings in the early evening.
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