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Presumably an extra hour of free time is worth roughly the same as an extra hour of work, otherwise more people would be working overtime. Of course there are p
by praxulus 13y ago
Presumably an extra hour of free time is worth roughly the same as an extra hour of work, otherwise more people would be working overtime. Of course there are plenty of exceptions, and limits imposed by standard length work days/weeks, but I think it should hold on average.
- coldtea 13y ago>Presumably an extra hour of free time is worth roughly the same as an extra hour of work, otherwise more people would be working overtime. People work as many hours as workforce pressure, norms and laws have them too. If they could get the same salary working for 5 hours a day, they would, and if they could get by, pay for food and rent and stuff for less salary and/or without working they would to. (I mean that for the huge masses, whose jobs don't "define" them -- not for the (far fewer) geek coders, artists, workaholics, etc.). So I don't think you can put a value on "free time". This only tells you how much people are payed for the hours they are forced to put in to work. It doesn't automatically mean that we can assume their free hours are worth as much. Not to mention: is an hour of free time for a top lawyer (which makes $1000 per hour) worth more than an hour of free time for a McDonald's employee? Does that also mean their lives are not worth the same?
- dagw 13y agoI don't know anybody that has the option of arbitrarily working paid overtime whenever they want.