If you are required to provide your employees benefits, then you need to hire them for a certain number of hours to amortize those benefits costs. And if you a

If you are required to provide your employees benefits, then you need to hire them for a certain number of hours to amortize those benefits costs. And if you are hiring Joe to work 40 hours as an Uber driver then you need to make sure he works 40 hours that make sense. Thus benefits require a minimum number of hours, and a minimum number of hours requires a schedule.