In France, we might have been the first to behead a King and hold a revolution, or to stand on barricades and die for ideals of justice and equality, but when it comes to change – especially in large organisations– we always seem to lag behind. You could blame it on a number of factors: a cultural bias towards tradition, the legacy of an interventionist and ever-present state, spawning bureaucratic models of large state-owned corporations, the everlasting grasp of the elites stifling innovation and the ability to “think outside the box”… Whatever this may be, the debate around remote working – a type of work organisation which allows employees to work regularly away from the office – in France has always been articulated around the preconception that France was behind. And that while its Anglo-Saxon or Nordic European neighbours displayed a boastful 30 percent of the working population as remote workers, France struggled to reach a meagre 9 to 10 percent in 2010.
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Probably just a typical boast by a Frenchman trying to ‘big up’ his country but who knows?
Baptiste Broughton says; “In France we might have been the first to behead a king and hold a revolution….” That was in 1793 ( The Execution of Louis XV1)
First to behead a king? - No We did that in 1649 in UK - Charles 1.
Revolution? - That would be the USA in 1765 - 1783…..
Wrong on two counts!
How can you believe anything more he has to say?