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How many hours the Dutch work may not sound like a hot topic. But our readers thought otherwise. In May this article ignited a lively debate about pensions, benefits and legalised pot—and became our most popular explainer in 2015
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Cara Luttrell-Jimenez
Experienced Bilingual Librarian and Interpreter/Translator for 37 years of translation experience.
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They have a very "strict" sense of society. They are very productive, but Americans aren't like the Dutch (who are nice people) ---not society-wise not in thinking either. Impossible for the U.S. to implement.
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John Sheridan
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Here in the land of chronically unhappy employees, it would be career suicide for a manager to express agreement with this.
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Jannus Kat
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Tim DeWitt
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When the robots finally do take over, hopefully we'll all have plenty of free time to zip out to those (dutch-built) super-yacht regattas in our autonomous flying drones.
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Part time=party time?
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Harald Hoogendoorn
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They smart and set their priorities👍
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Davide Cattaneo 🌍
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Because they are smarter ✨✨✨
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Cindy L. Schreiner
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Bonno Vanderputten comments ?
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Chris Clayton
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Quality of life, personal motivation, achieving one's goals, having time for others, planning for your future life after work, having other interests, networking and generally enjoying life, which means the good bits and the not so good bits!
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