This is an example of the kind of dumb partisan journalism that the Journal has been doing more and more of. Who cares what some "U.S. CEO" subjectively thinks of "French Work Habits". That's a question the CEO is answering to a newspaper. And sure, it's going to be colored by the fact that the CEO is almost certainly an anti-labor Republican.
The question the same management is asking on behalf of its shareholders, however, is an entirely quantitative one: how much will it cost to open a factory in France? Obviously labor policy (not "work habits") is a factor there. But how much? The article doesn't say.
The question the same management is asking on behalf of its shareholders, however, is an entirely quantitative one: how much will it cost to open a factory in France? Obviously labor policy (not "work habits") is a factor there. But how much? The article doesn't say.
So what was the point of my reading this?