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Was just thinking, I've said flexible working hours are common, but this is going to be quite industry specific. Most of my recent experience is in public service which tends to be more flexible, but it's not uncommon in other large organisations for non-customer facing office roles (i.e. those that don't have specific customer hours).
Also, some of our government wants to remove union protections as well. The big difference is that our current government is made up of a coalition of centre-right party, a further right party, and a populist party. To pass laws, they all have to agree. So there's a lot of talk, but in general changes are limited to rolling back some recent worker rights policies from the previous government, they can't get enough agreement to pass sweeping changes. There is no such thing as president's orders here, no one person can make a new law (apparently this is true in the US too but I don't really understand what all the orders were Trump was signing).
That sounds a lot more sane than our politics, out policies change rapidly whenever the parties switch who's in charge. The whole presidential executive orders thing is really wild, they can't pass full laws but the power they do weild is immense. The 00s invasion of Iraq was done on an executive order, and no Trump is using them to take away lgbt rights and deport a ton of immigrants. The president is supposed to be reigned in by congress and the judicial branch but they're both strongly aligned with same party and do little to check his power.
Yeah I've read of previous research that shows countries with proportional systems are generally happier. I can't remember if this was happy with their government or happier in general, though. But it seems fairer. In a winner takes all scenario, it's hard for minority groups to get representation. In a proportional scenario, you need a lot fewer voters to get some people into parliament even if they can't pass laws on their own, they have their say, and parties often need agreements with smaller parties to get laws passed.
Our leader is not a president but a prime minister, and they have very little power on their own.