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I like how people give many reasons about why 32 hour work weeks is a bad idea, but are somehow settled on the magical 40 hour agreement. Even if all of those a
by crvdgc 3y ago
I like how people give many reasons about why 32 hour work weeks is a bad idea, but are somehow settled on the magical 40 hour agreement. Even if all of those are valid, the very same reasons can be applied to an argument for 48 hour work weeks or 60 hours like in many Chinese tech companies.
- prepend 3y agoFor me, it’s not that 40 hours is a precise number so much as it’s the norm. So if the country settled on 41 or 39, it’s the same issue. It’s not the number of hours but variance from the norm that makes it difficult to recruit and retain people.