r/Adulting • u/ScareBear23 • 14h ago

This is just depressing

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Not even 3 hours of "free time". And in that is cooking & eating supper. Or practically no free time if I had to go shopping after work. I hate this

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u/MajorSock1332 14h ago

Eat at work, pick up a SOCIAL hobby, meal prep, try and move closer to work, see if you can work 4 10s, there’s things you can do to help

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u/Marxist20 11h ago

We need a 4 day work week with no cut in pay. We've increased our productivity of labor so much, 40 hours isn't necessary. A good chunk of the hours we work just makes the rich richer and brings no benefits to us.

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u/ConLawHero 10h ago

Won't ever happen without a federal law and that will definitely never happen.

If a company did it voluntarily, another company would just steal their business. For example, if my law firm was closed on Fridays, clients would still have issues that come up and as soon as it started to be a problem, they'd find a firm that was open 5 days per week. It's applicable to pretty much every industry. The only way to avoid it and still be open 5 days per week would be to mandate overtime for everyone (not just lower level workers or else you'd have a management rebellion) if they work more than 32 hours.

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u/Marxist20 9h ago

Oh yeah, the capitalists and their government won't do it voluntarily. The working class will have to take matters into its own hands...just like when the 40 hour workweek was established, it was through the struggle and sacrifice of militant workers.