Six-Hour Work Hours Benefits

Other American industrialists and factory managers were stunned when automobile manufacturer Henry Ford announced in 1914 that he would pay his assembly line workers five dollars a day 'and reduce the working day from nine to eight hours. The average daily wage in American industry at the time was $2.34. He became world famous almost overnight. Opponents derided Ford as a socialist, while supporters called him a great humanitarian. Actually, Ford had simply come to understand that mass production required a society composed of many consumers, not just a few wealthy people amid a multitude of poor. He was making cars for the middle class and knew that sales depended on the existence of a middle class able to afford

After the civil war, up until the early 1900s, the need for a larger workforce grew as industrialization expanded. Samuel Slater brought the industrial revolution from England, and even since then, there were people trying to get better working conditions. Due to the growth in population by immigrants and expansion of industrialization, the working conditions became worse and worse, causing workers to suffer. Many people fought to solve this problem and changed many American’s lives for the better.

Work-life balance has been a popular topic for employees across all age and occupations for years, representing a rising concern of contemporary human resource management and labor policies. This topic has attracted the attention from the millennium generation, who is stepping into the market and beginning to grow a career. Therefore considering the increasing demand, well-designed workforce planning with diverse scheduling options offered to employees appears to be extra credits for most companies. This research paper aims to communicate the positive effects of four-day workweek, and providing support for why employers should adopt this schedule for employees and themselves through 1) introducing background and history of four-day workweek as a work schedule option and 2) demonstrating benefits of four-day workweek from both employer and employees’ perspectives.

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.

Overtime it put in rules for eight-hour workdays, 40-hour weeks, minimum wage, safer working conditions, and so on. This allowed for people to live a much better life as they didn’t spend most of their time working. People were able to feel safe and even a little powerful at work due to the movement and the creation of unions. Families were able to have enough money to live a better quality of life along with being able to afford more things which boosted the economy. Safety nets like workers compensation and health care were created to help people continue to live their lives even if injured or sick as they could still have some money and not go bankrupt if something happened to them. Additionally, children greatly benefitted with this movement because it made child labor illegal which allowed for children to go to school and get an education to further better themselves instead of being stuck in a dangerous factory getting very little

Personally, I believe that there should be changes in employment laws to give Americans more time to relax. That is why it is important to provide a solution to the problem that is affecting the lives of many Americans. The first thing to do to provide more free time to employees is to establish a law that makes it mandatory for employees to not work past 40 hours a week. Another, way to fix the problem is to increase the income of employee workers that way they can work 40 hours a week. That way workers’ productivity can improve while, not having a negative on the workers’ physically and

The Populists claim that the workday is way too long and creates a system where people cannot find time for their own ambitions. However, it is through the long work days that the millionaires of our era learned the value of hard work and the fruits which hard work bears. If these self-made men worked for just eight hours a day, a belief would be instilled that work ethic is not directly related to result, thus resulting in a belief that work is not related to gain. Aside from devaluing hard work, the regulation of work day would impact our economy in huge ways. By reducing the amount that US factories create, the shorter work days would pose a financial problem for our government as with less manufacturing, the government earns less tax dollars while still being required to pay for roads and postal service as well as the armies protecting our

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

Also workers must focus on there jobs to make money for there families not for fun or short hours a day its not helping bye taking peoples hours down. Everyone has to beable and willing to do there jobs if they cant do there 11 plus hours jobs find somone that will get in there and do there job the way it needs to been done. Only working six hour jobs its making a living for the family its just wasting time so no I dont think

With factories trying to increases their productivity they made workers suffer from sun up to sundown with little breaks and little pay. Though some people were treated fairly like the people of Germantown in document 2. This document features a small excerpt from Philadelphia in 1844, written by Leon Faucher after his visit. In this excerpt, Faucher talks about what he observes “The young women are well and decently clothed…The houses…Mr. Ashton has built, 3000 of them, which he [rents] for…75 cents per week…Everywhere is to be observed a cleanliness which indicates order and comfort.” However not everything you observe is true. Such as the people in document 6 who are protesting for 8 hour work days. It was quite common for factory owners during the industrial revolution to overwork their workers causing many to protest this then later led to the 8 hour work days that we’ve come to know and love

The president at the time, Theodore Roosevelt, made antitrust laws to stop the trusts complete control of U.S. industries. The Knights of Labor was created in 1869 and wanted an 8-hour work day. The American Federation of Labor was created in 1886 and focused on higher wages and job security. Between 1881 and 1905, 37,000 strikes happened. As the country grew so did the need for production of goods. This is where was production comes into play. In 1913, Henry Ford installed the world’s first assembly line. It took approximately 12 hours to build a Ford Model-T. By 1914, it only took 1 hour and a half. Due to mass production, companies were producing more products than the economy could handle. This brought on the need for new to increase consumer demand and the growth of foreign trade. The construction of the Panama Canal was an important part of this because it reduced the travel time for ship between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. During the World War I, production increased dramatically because with all businesses went into war time and began to build tanks and other weapons. Women joined into the workforce to help with the economy since most men was off to the war. Women had start to utilize their newfound

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

Prior to the 1930s, many American workers were either unemployed or had to endure long working hours in harmful environments with inadequate compensation. And while the courts argued that worker protecting statutes approved by Congress were an intrusion to the right to free contracting, according to Canny (2005), hardly anyone was able to buy the innovative products the industry produced. Consequently, with rising economic and social issues, including the consequences of the Great Depression, the president and the government, according to Selzer (1995), were duty-bound to establish new legislations to ensure that each working individual would receive a “fair day’s pay for a fair day’s work.”. This was achieved by the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 (FLSA), which set forth a national minimum wage, a fulltime standard workweek, and strictly regulated use of child labor (Canny, 2005).

When at work there are always those certain coworkers that you personally can’t stand; working less hours than you do now will still allow you to still make the money you need to pay bills and save in general. You will no longer have to deal with those annoying coworkers.

A six hour shift would allow employees to intensely focus on their work and be able to have the endurance to complete the work. Instead of taking more breaks in between the long eight hour shift, workers will began to manage their time more effectively to be able to productively finish the work in fewer hours.