Spanish companies are not very flexible and tend to lengthen the working day of their employees, without increasing their profitability. This is one of the conclusions of the White Paper for a rationalization of working hours in Spain, presented by the economist Nuria Chinchilla, director of the International Center for Work and Family of the business school IESE, in Barcelona. (Ref.06620)
According to the study conducted within 400 European companies, 45% of them state absenteeism like one their major problems, followed by lack of implication of employees. The author of the report affirms that Spanish companies are among those which lengthen working days more and more. In Spain, the average working time is currently 42 hours weekly and is constantly increasing. Consequently, more and more employees are developing a “syndrome of saturation”, due to these long working days, and do
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