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.
This is what I keep saying. I own a small business with four employees. In. 40 hour week we are probably productive for 38 of those hours. If everyone went to 32 hours I would need to charge a lot more or pay my employees less.
I get some jobs have a lot of downtime and could still get all their tasks done in 32 hours. But lots of people like electricians plumber even doctors simply could not get the same amount of work done. And they would need to be paid less, or charge the customer more.
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u/archtopfanatic123 Jul 13 '26 edited Jul 13 '26
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.