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You can argue that it shouldn't be true, but the fact that this is presented as breaking news about Google is ridiculous. This is true about many positions in the US.
The breaking news part seems to me to be the part where they got the memo saying it was basically an understood policy. That is true about many jobs, but it usually isn't spelled out so clearly, certainly not for a company the size of Google. I think it's good for workers to know for a fact that they're being exploited at every possible opportunity.
I don't get it either. I work in IT in France and do 39 hours a week. It's fairly close to that google figure.
And we have one of the most protective unions and so on here in France.
This is absolutely not unusual in EU to see people working 40+ hours a week and I'm sure there is much worse.
I agree that we should all work less than 8 hours a day, no matter the field honestly, but that's just how it is right now.
Now the main difference is we probably have much more holidays than in the US but that's a different story.