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Ford, the 40 hour week comes from car manufacturing in factories, it's not tailored for office work.

• jelliclesfarm 4y ago
  Manual blue collar work is also largely automated these days and doesn’t require that many man hours. I feel like we need a whole paradigm shift in how we look at ‘work’. I farm and there is no way I can work 40 hours/week. I will drop dead from sheer exhaustion. When I was working restaurant jobs, we had a shift system and only one double shift per week…but only if the restaurant was super busy. Because I worked in fancy Michelin restaurants, we always knew bookings in advance. And because of the nature of the job, always one double shift/week. In places like..McDonalds, it’s just a way to keep people on the payroll as they surely are not working 8 hours/everyday. In the middle level jobs like management or even certain tech jobs, this will create a gap for incoming young workforce. Because the older workforce will simply be idle and can’t afford to retire(esp in America). When young people should be employed and accumulating resources to start families, they are not gainfully employed. Older people cannot retire comfortably. More jobs would open up if we cut work hours to 20 hours/week.