It’s entirely plausible that employees at small companies aren’t generating value for all the extra time they’re at work. You could make the argument that with

It’s entirely plausible that employees at small companies aren’t generating value for all the extra time they’re at work. You could make the argument that with a four day work week they’d accomplish the same amount of value generation, and that in the current situation there’s a lot of waste. People balked when the 40hr workweek was introduced but it ended up lowering injuries and illness and had a net increase effect in productivity.