He’s not completely off though. I have friends in the private sector who work more than the 37 hours because the culture is like that, because they enjoy it, because it speeds their career or a combination. It’s gotten less and less as we age, but still, some of them have pushed some really long weeks in their younger years.

Sure, I see that happening both in public and private sector among the people I know.

On the other hand my fulltime contract pr the union agreement in the private sector is 36 hours (and 5 child sick days).