Should Six-Hour Work Days Become Standard In The United States?

Even though the eight-hour day movement were widespreading, there was only a minority of workers initially won the Eight-Hour Day. Overtime working had caused stress on the workers as male death had a large increasing throughout 1890 to 1914 from being over tired.

Times have changed since 1914 and we are still having issuses when it comes to the work environment. Both articles have made strong arguments; on what would be the best solution and how it would benfit not only the workers but the employers as well. However I agree that six hour days would not work. Either the workers lose two hour wages everyday or the employers hire more wokers for the jobs that are not being done due to only having six hours. All of the employees that they are forced to hire would not get a quarter of their pay because they are not full time. The people that only work the six hours would not be able to get health plans the full time workers are entitled to. Not having health care is stressful; that is living with the worry

I think that the United States could go to the six hour work day. People in the past have done it and it was a huge success. During the Industrial Revolution people had to work 11-12 hours each day with little pay. Later on in the 1900s, Henry Ford changed the work hours for his employees and they showed great amounts of success. Ford doubled their pay and they did the work 2 times faster and more efficiently.

In our stress ridden country, so focused on the hustle and bustle of work, we have lost sight of how to relax, and enjoy family time. With a six hour workday people can enjoy work, and life off-duty without feeling like they have to trade one for the other. Change will take time, and be difficult, but it is

The positive effect of 12 hour shifts on nurses include a shorter workweek, enhanced work-life balance, flexibility, and better continuity of care for patients. Nurses typically work 10 days a pay period during eight hour shifts. However, working 12 hour shifts allows nurses to work six days a pay period. Resulting in a reduction of four days work. Next, it gives nurses the sense of balance between work and their life. A research conducted in Australia after the introduction of 12 hour shifts states, “92 percent of nurses noticed 12 hour shifts gave them greater flexibility and 83 percent noticed it gave them more time to spend with their loved ones” (Aveyard et al., 2016/ 2017). Working less days means freedom away from job related activity,

In an office job, perhaps shorter, six-hour workdays would be plausible. However, if a job such as construction or something else requiring physical labor were to have six-hour shifts, many more people would have to be employed to complete the job on time. This means it costs an employer more money, and that could be quite dangerous for his

In the event a six-hour work day was proposed, and should take effect. One would have to take in the consideration of the wages loss in that 2 hour period, as stated in the second paragraph of the section entitled Six-Hour Days Will Never Work. I personally feel this would pose a great problem for the average working class in today's society. The working person already feels compelled to take in

A six-hour day will never work in this day of time. Cost of living for most state's is at a out time high.Family will not be about to take care of living expense.You,will need another money to commute back and forward to work.Those are the reason I feel that a six-hour workday want work.

I agree with the article, "Six-Hour Days Will Never Work". In my opinion it will never work because six hours seems to be to short in time to do work. if we continue our 8 hours most people can get done work plus more and have time to get the next shift report. Six hour shift is considered part time hours, that means no full time benefits for insurance or any other sort. Families can often get sick because they can't afford to pay an well visit to the doctors. That can a effect a person's family within the household. Or they wouldn't have enough money in a paycheck to provide their family. Losing two hours a daily can add up when it's time to get your paycheck. For the 8 hours that a person spends at work, they can take (2) 15 mins break

Working 8 hour shifts should be kept as the norm. The economic cost of six-hour work days is prohibitive. Either workers or employers will be forced to end up paying for it. If it's the workers, then they'll lose two hours of wages each day, and that's about a quarter of their pay. Even though productivity increased with six-hour workdays, so did sickness.

In conclusion, I believe that a six-hour workday would be more effective for workers and employees, but most importantly the company itself. Heres why, it will help improve the workplace, help workers become more focused in their work, and also help the workers gain more energy and motivation to start and finish an objective. So rather then the following, I believe that the six-hour workday should be something in consiteration for future and all present

A six hour work day should not become the standard work day in the United States. Paste generations of people were forced to work 11 to 12 hours per day like the first article says. This proves that as human beings we are well capable of perfoming tasks for much longer periods of time than six hours.

My position on the issue of hours worked per day is it should become standard in the United states. An 8 hour work day is usually more dreadful. As is a 6 hour day is more leanient. A shorter work day will be less stressful and will make it more easy to stay on task.

As the first paragraph states, in 1914 factory workers worked about twelve hours a day until it was cut four hours down to eight hour workdays in 1914 by Henry Ford in his factorys. The workers productivity skyrocketed and ever since then eight hour work days have been the norm and it has worked well. Even most schools have classes that are almost eight hours a day and kids productivity seems to be doing fine. Changing the normal eight hours that has been the norm for over a hundred years could ruin companies by causing substantial profit loss when they have to hire new employees to cover the empty shifts that six-hour days would leave.

Changing the workday to six hours could be benefit the United States. Having a six hour workday could mean less time taking off. We would have time for doctors appointments, going to your children's school or running personal errands. If we do our best thinking late in the morning and late afternoon. Why wouldn't the United States want to try this. The United States has a high unemployment rate. This could help the United States. More people would want to work, if we would go in at a later time. If our body needs eight hours rest, going into work late means we could get the rest we need to be more productived at the work place. I found personally, that if work better in the mornings, so I would rather work early mornings and have the late afternoons