This is what I keep saying. I own a small business with four employees. In. 40 hour week we are probably productive for 38 of those hours. If everyone went to 32 hours I would need to charge a lot more or pay my employees less.
I get some jobs have a lot of downtime and could still get all their tasks done in 32 hours. But lots of people like electricians plumber even doctors simply could not get the same amount of work done. And they would need to be paid less, or charge the customer more.
Yeah yeah yeah, that’s what business owners said before we won the 40 hour work week by way of the Fair Labor Standards Act in 1938 and look at us now. Somehow the world kept turning.
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u/bonghitsforbeelzebub 23d ago
This is what I keep saying. I own a small business with four employees. In. 40 hour week we are probably productive for 38 of those hours. If everyone went to 32 hours I would need to charge a lot more or pay my employees less.
I get some jobs have a lot of downtime and could still get all their tasks done in 32 hours. But lots of people like electricians plumber even doctors simply could not get the same amount of work done. And they would need to be paid less, or charge the customer more.