This Woman's Explainer On Why The 8-Hour Workday Is Tragically Outdated Is Going Viral

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'The 40-hour work week was created by one man, in one industry, 100 years ago and we have not improved it.'

in the early 1900s. He established eight hours work, eight hours rest, eight hours sleep, and then start that over again. We went wrong in two places. The first is that Ford worked in manufacturing, which means someone standing somewhere for eight hours doing approximately the same task does yield a certain amount of productivity. We have rolled over this eight-hour framework into industries where it just does not make sense.

There are so many industries that are project-based where you don't need eight hours, and by just having someone keep themselves busy for eight hours, you're losing so much productivity."She continues,"The second reason this framework is tragically outdated is that this was created at a time when wives stayed home to keep a lot of the household together. Where there were no super commuters, commuting hours each day to get to work.

 

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Laughs in 12 hour work days, well cries.

I want free money

Hahaha 40 hr work week exhausting. I remember when I worked part time hours like that

I generally work 50 & someimes more, sooo

I've been working lately 10 and half hours a day. 62 hours per week include Saturdays. Bitch I know I'm really exhausted. Brasil work class is fucked.

Work harder

Eh it works alright

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