Very true.
The crazy thing is that as an American, I have seen my vacation time actually DECREASE since being bought out by a French Company. The site I worked at got closed and folks got absorbed into another division, and in the process my almost 6 weeks of PTO (I worked there 18 years) with a 6.5 week cap, got cut down to 4.5 weeks.
The biggest thing I would love to see (not necessarily a French thing) would be a 4 day work week. My previous tenure at the company, I was salary and working with a Japanese customer. Since our Friday was their Saturday, we usually cut out about 1-2pm on Fridays.
I worked briefly for a refinery services company and they did the same thing, working 9-ish hour days Monday through Thursday, then on Friday we would check in for a few hours in the morning then the rest of the day was ours.
My current role, everything happens at 5pm on Friday.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2024/04/26/trump-oust-powell-set-interest-rates-himself-secret-plan/
Talk about a plan to ruin the value of the dollar. When he was president, the man threatened the Reserve Chair to keep interest rates low.