[hinckley buzzard]

A proposal worth analyzing in some depth. I'm surprised at the mindlesss kneejerk reactions here. The 40 hour work week is a norm of fairly recent origin and not at all a universal norm, so why is it considered a sacrosanct minimum?

[libertarian27]

If we’re all going to be cut down to 25 hours we need to earn almost twice as much in order to pay all the taxes due.

[Bryanw92]

>>A proposal worth analyzing in some depth. I’m surprised at the mindlesss kneejerk reactions here. The 40 hour work week is a norm of fairly recent origin and not at all a universal norm, so why is it considered a sacrosanct minimum?

Because most Americans are trained from birth to think of the “productive work week” being 40 hours, with the “real producers” proudly working 60-80 hours and bragging about how they sold their very finite lives.

25 is a little drastic, but I think we should look at lowering the work week to 36 hours, with an option for 32 for people willing to take the pay cut. We’ve spent the last 40 years automating all of our industries and moving from paper to computers in every aspect of our lives. There is no excuse for working a work week designed almost 100 years ago.

[redgolum]

If you look at how much “work” is really “Making the boss think I am important”, I can see this working.