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UK closed-year FPS is its own workflow. Germany the social security side is genuinely terrifying because of director liability. France the majorations stack up fast once you miss droit à l'erreur on the next DSN.

At what point does it go from fixing it on the next filing to needing the local accountant involved before you touch anything?

Is there an escalation rule, or is it case by case?

Germany's biggest 4-day workweek trial just wrapped (45 companies, 13 industries, 6 months), and 73 percent of the companies kept it permanently. Productivity even went up 1 to 3 percent in some of them. Mexico is pushing legislation towards shorter workweeks. HBR ran a piece in April basically asking why this isn't the default yet.

And between 1900 and 1970, the workweek in most of Europe dropped from around 60 hours to 40. Each generation just worked less than the one before. Then it stalled. We've been stuck at 40 for over 50 years now (which is wild when you think about it).

So, when our kids hit 30, are they on a 4-day default?

Does the historical pattern of every generation working a bit less just resume after a long pause?

Or have we hit some kind of structural floor where productivity gains stop translating into time off, and the 5-day stays put for another century?