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How about, "Could the U.S. Ever Adopt an Eight-Hour Workday?" I'm not talking about including off-hour emailing and such. I'm talking about a plain old 9-5. I'
by imh 11y ago
How about, "Could the U.S. Ever Adopt an Eight-Hour Workday?"
I'm not talking about including off-hour emailing and such. I'm talking about a plain old 9-5. I'm probably biased by living in SF, but I don't know anyone who works such short hours. Did salaried people ever get to do eight hour days like wage workers did?
- adventured 11y agoGallup put out a poll a year ago, indicating around 37% of full-time salary workers put in exactly 40 hours. For full-time hourly workers, it's 56% by comparison. And 25% of full-time salary workers are at 60 hours or more. http://www.gallup.com/poll/175286/hour-workweek-actually-longer-seven-hours.aspx http://www.gallup.com/poll/175286/hour-workweek-actually-lon...
- marvin 11y agoNorwegian here. 7.5 hour work day, lunch included. We don't get paid as much as US software engineers, though. We are "salaried" in the sense that we have a fixed salary, but we also have strong protections in law that require companies to pay if they require more than 8 hours per day from an individual employee. I think your question is pretty obvious; as long as salaried means "fixed price to squeeze out as much effort as possible" then obviously a large portion of profit-focused companies will do just (misguided or not; organizations are rarely super insightful in aggregate) that in the absence of legislation that discourages it.