Workday In The United States

The reading states that the conversion from 5-day workweek to 4-day workweek offers numerous benefits to both businesses and employees and should be seriously considered and provides three reasons of support. However, the professor states that the benefits do not justify this dramatic change and refutes each of the authors' reasons.

It is not uncommon to become accustomed to the way business is conducted in the United States. It’s a fair assumption that many young, inexperienced business executives are unaware of international cultures in business. Each country has particular customs and practices. It certainly goes without saying that Corporate America has an understanding when it comes to the terms of a standard workweek.

It is not recommend moving the employees from the current 24/48 schedule. The current schedule seems to balance the workload placed on the employees with the department’s functional needs. In terms of economic benefits, we find that the department would realize no major cost savings because of a schedule change.

After reading the passage A Six-Hour Workday Is Plenty, I'd have to agree with Henry Ford's change, considering the fact that not only did his employee's work 11-12 hours a day, 6 days a week Henry Ford had also doubled the workers pay. Not only did it benefit Henry Ford and his employee's their company had a huge increase in productivity. I from personal experience have worked 6 days a week, 8-9 hours in sells. I would make sure customers left happy with their product, paid a good price and if they ever had an issue with their product i'd try my best to help them out any way i could whether if they wanted a refund or an exchange. During the 8-9 hours i worked my manager paid me over time. All in all I had to agree that people are more aware 4 hours after waking up. For example, when i use to work at Wendy's early morning I'd feel so lost in organizing and finding products to stock, I would'nt be as motivated as to go into work at 12 in the afternoon instead of 7am. After working for 2-3 hours i'd have to take a break to refuel my body because i was so tired from standing and taking

If the choice of eight-hour workdays or six-hour days were up to me I would have to say six-hour days are better for the United States. Ive looked very closely at the reasons why it would be better such as more productivity, less time spent in the office, and less distractions due to focus on the tasks. If we keep our normal work hours less will get accomplished due to people taking breaks and slacking off. There are downsides to this change in time such as more people being sick due to fatigue and to much stress, less pay due to hours being cut, and the more people missing work the more you will have to pay to get a replacement. These are all great points but the American people can push through anything to make things better for everyone.

In my own opinion, I think that a six hour work day is plenty. When you get off work you will still have enough time to do other things, and you will also have your days off like usual. Me personally, I think that if you have to work more than eight hours a day, then you should get paid more. Henery Ford changed the workday to eight hours on his assembly line, and he also doubled the workers' pay. Suprisingly, a six hour worday is likely to be more productive than an eight hour day (as stated on the first article).

The work industry has both options of working six hours or more. If an employee ends up working six hours they dont get the full benefit of insurance or more hourly pay. With that being said most of the population likes to work more hours.

I think that working 8 hour shifts is just about perfect. it's enough time to get the work done, but not so long that everyone get tired and sluggish before end of day. For example, Working from 8 to

While most Americans work an average of 47 hours a week, eat lunch while at their computer and also work nights and weekends, the French generally work Monday to Friday 8 or 9am to 12/12:30pm, lunch break averages 1-2 hours, and then 2/2:30pm to 6pm. A law to reduce the statutory working week in France from 39 hours to 35 hours was introduced in 2000, for companies with more than 20 employees and, in 2002, for companies with 20 employees or fewer. Studies by the Office of Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) suggest that France is below the OECD average when it comes to hours worked and consequently French employees have above average leisure time on an average day. Approximately 15 hours per day are dedicated to personal care and leisure (eating, sleeping, etc). With that being said, some often wonder

In the United States, employees typically work five days a week for eight hours each day. However, many employees want to work a four-day week and are willing to accept less pay inorder to do so. A mandatory policy requiring companies to offer their employees the option of working a four-day workweek for four-fifths (80 percent)of their normal pay would benefit the economy as a whole as well as the individual companies and the employees who decided to take the option. The shortened workweek would increase company profits because employees would feel more rested and alert, and as a result, they would make fewer costly errors in their work. Hiring morestaff to ensure that the same amount of work would be accomplished would not result in additional payroll costs because four-day employees would only be paid 80 percent of the normal rate.

My position on the issue of whether or not a six-hour workday should become standard in the United States is divided, yet certain. Suprisingly , a six-hour work day is likely to be more than productive than an eight-hour day. Most people do thier thinking in late morning and late afternoon . We need time to wind up ,and wind down . Eliminating the first early hours of the common workday may result in similar improvement in the workplace. Most people can only focus on a task for 90-120 minutes at a time . Then workers must break to regroup. The biggest mark about reducing the hours in a workday is that asking employees to work a eight -hour workday is fair. I agree. The economic cost of six-hour wordays is prohibitive . Either workers or the

In my opinion, I think the work shifts should stay the same, i think this because workers get a certain amount of of pay for the work they do and it seems unfair to the workers that work eight hours to let other workers cut two hours off their shifts when the others don't.

Six-hour workdays are not long enough. If you worked six hours a day for six days you still wouldn't work a regular full-time job that requires forty or more hours a week. You would have to work every single day of the week to ensure the benefits of a full-time job.

I believe that a shorter work day is not going to work an here is my opinion on why. Poeple need to work more hours a day because in my own expirence you dont have to rush to get a certain amount of work done within a limited time and the more hours you work the more you are likley to make. For example if your hourly wages are thirteen dollars an hour and you work eight hours a day for five days that will be forty hours a week resulting in a pay day of five hundred and thirty dollars but even if you subtract a hundred in taxes that would leave you with the amount of four hundred and thirty dollars. Know for say you are working a six hour shift with the wages of eighteen dollars an hour for five days so once its all said and done on pay day

On reviewing different research reports on the working time pattern, the institute of employment studies in the United Kingdom made comparisons with European Union and discovered that in the UK, the work force has some of the longest working hours in Europe. This was attributed to overtime pay, which on the other hand can easily translate to low productivity and poorly motivated work force. Every company is core aim is to maximize on the profit margins while undertaking better employee related work practices and programs targeting at the workers’ result than evaluation on the time engaged to get the desired result. As a result, Human Resource manager should be able to implement best practices through the human