Why Do A Shorter Work Day

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

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.

Shorter workdays rob employees of full-time benefits. This problem is doubled when one calculates in the fact that shorter workdays mean less pay. If an employee becomes sick or injured, it will cost him greatly to receive healthcare for it because of less benefits and less pay.

Six-hour workdays? Is this a joke..? If workers only worked six-hours a day they would be losing about a quarter of their pay. How would they be able to pay their bills every month? They wouldn't. Six-hour work days will never workout the way supporters of shorter workdays claim.

When it comes to my opnion on work days being six or eight hours i have to side with the six hour shift. My main reason for picking this is the physical strain work tends to take on your body. My second reason is functioning in the early morning is difficut. Your mind has not gotten a chance to fully wake up yet. My final reason why i support a six hour work day is people need to have time to spend with family and friends. Although i do agree with some good parts on an eight hour work day. I still have to support the six hour work day.

I propose that the average five day work week to be shortened down to four days. This bill will give people the rest and extra time that they need to function. A three day weekend is a reasonable amount of time people should be allowed to have to spend as they want. This bill will ensure that people will no longer overwork themselves.

A six hour workday should become a standard in the United States because it increases productivity and it has been shown to work in other countries.

Six-hour workdays have a good imapct to a small amount of people. It has some good impacts such as more productivity and shorter work days. The impact it would have in reality would be far worse, than a positive change. In the article explaining why shorter workdays cause issuse, it states that because of every worker working harder and faster to keep up with buisness requirements, it is causing the workers to become sick. The reasoning is for the two hours you dont have to work, you have to push your body to another level to get the two hours caught back up too.

I believe that the U.S. should stick to the current eight-hour workdays due to the benefits and revenue that comes from it. The money being made from working an eight-hour shift not only benefits the employee but also the employee. The health benefits that most jobs provide just for working those shift are a bonus already. As for those who believe we should switch to a six-hour workday, just think about the benefits that will be lost over such a small change. It's not worth it.

In "A Six-Hour Workday is Plenty" they inform the reader as to why they believe a workers day should only be six hours. One of the greatest reasons they gave was that the amount of productivity was a lot greater with only six-hour work days. However in "Six-Hour Days Will Never Work" they explain why that is still a bad thing. The amount of work that was needed to be done in a shorter work day was causing the workers to become ill. Even though their days were shorter they still had a required amount of work to get done that "required a level

As i read through these two passages it made me think about the good and bad ideas that these this two opinions shared. I'm a 25 year old female who is married and has children. I dropped out of highschool to start life as an adult. Quickly i learned that being in school was better then going out to the " work day life ". As quickly as i learned you have to work for your living , more hours means more money. Now that i am a mother to my two children , i have to make sure that they receive everything they need. When i say that i mean i have to work hard everyday and make sure to make it to work to make money.

On average most children go to school for 7-8 hours. For 18 years of their life they are use to a shedule that fits with the average day of work, preparing them for adulthood. I believe that both Sides have strong points, but that eight hour work days are fair and can acomadate the average workers needs.

Four-day workweek, like the name suggests, calls for replacing the five eight-hour days with four ten-hour days without changes in hourly earnings or weekly earnings. Therefore, the same number of hours of work and leisure are provided at the same earnings. The concept of a compressed workweek is not new, even if it is not the norm for most jobs. Proposals to reduce weekly hours of work, a major concern of American labor in the early years of century, are again a serious concern to many people. The 2008 National Study of Employers, released by the Families and Work Institute, found that 38 percent of US firms allow a compressed workweek for some employees. Eight percent permit it for all or most employees (Gardner). When a growing number of employers are considering converting to a compressed four-day workweek, it is important to understand positives and negatives of the new work schedule, to analyze a specific example of company that have failed in converting to the new policy, and to understand additional factors to consider before the implementation of the new policy.

I do not agree that working long hours encourages people to consume more. I have some working experiences before. After working for the whole day, I felt very tired and I thought money does not come easily, so I would not buy as much as I earned. I would like to save it and buy wait until I think the price of the good I want to buy is acceptable and it is useful.