Because the amount of productive work hours most people get per week is realistically closer to 20-30. The rest of the time they are being paid for their presen

Because the amount of productive work hours most people get per week is realistically closer to 20-30. The rest of the time they are being paid for their presence. If the day's work is done at 11am, I hope you enjoy twiddling your thumbs until 5pm hoping something comes up for you to do. There's only so much of tomorrow's work that you can finish ahead of schedule (esp. if most of it is waiting on clients to get back to you at a later date). Every individual in my department could work a 20 hour week and just as much work would be done. I know this because of the 1 hour smoke breaks that happen every-other-hour. They're already working 4 hour days, why not just make it official? I'm sure the employees would love having an additional 4 hours of personal time each day.