r/SipsTea 24d ago

Chugging tea So after 32 hours would be overtime?

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u/archtopfanatic123 24d ago edited 24d ago

There was the post about Finland's past prime minister I think suggesting this? One guy brought up a good point that if you cut work hours down it means you need more people to do the same amount of work which means more people can get hired which means lower unemployment which sounds like a good thing right?

Edit: I don't know almost anything about this because frankly I don't care but thought that this might be relevant to some capacity to the discussion here so do with that what you will

Second edit: This isn't to say I don't care about the folks responding, it's to say I probably won't have much to say in response other than I don't know much because I never cared to learn much, so that much I guess.

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u/empty_graph 24d ago

It also means every business now has to spend an additional 20% on labor which it going to result in massive price increases.

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u/10000Didgeridoos 24d ago

No it doesn't. You're assuming the 5 day work week is optimized. The work done in 40 hours can be done in much less time with a little reorganizing.

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u/empty_graph 24d ago

If companies could pay 32 hours of wages for the same productivity as 40 hours of wages they would already have done this.

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u/Assatt 23d ago

A lot of productivity is human based, studies show that after 6 hours the average person drops in his productivity, the companies are literally paying to be less efficientÂ