Jack Ma: In 30 years people will work 'four hours a day and maybe four days a week

cnbc.com ^ | 6/21/2017 | Anita Balakrishnan

[Albion Wilde]

I predicted this 40 years ago, before our helpful overlords exported our healthy economy and brought in millions of unskilled, free-range slaves.

[Drew68]

People work longer than they did in the fifties.

I can't find a single study that corroborates this. In fact, they all say the opposite.

Do you have one?

[<1/1,000,000th%]

More likely they’ll be working 3 part-time jobs working 100 hours a week for $8 an hour.

[Tammy8]

Can’t do it with agriculture either. Critters and crops take care.

[hawg-farmer - FR..October 1998]

I like my Job and I am good at it at 65 Years Old. Sure I could retire, but I get self satisfaction from Being a MECHANICAL ENGINEER and a productive citizen. I will be working until the day I die.

[rktman]

If we were still flying the shuttle, I’d still be working. But, I’ve adapted well. ;-)

[mjp]

Over the last 200 years capitalism and freedom have naturally reduced the number of hours that wage earners work and make it possible for them to choose more leisure and still have enough to live on.

[wally_bert]

[A Formerly Proud Canadian]

Sorry, I should have said the 70s and 80s. I believe the predictions of very short work weeks were began the 50s.

From personal experience, I know that as a salaried employee in the 80s and 00s, you rarely ever work the 'official' work week hours of 37.5 or 40 hours per week. With all the 'off shoring' of jobs, the corporate job cuts to pay for expensive money losing senior management cock ups, among other things, middle and lower level salaried staff are working LONG hours. Personal experience confirmed here. Of course, government employees stick religiously to 35 or 37.5 hours unless they get OT.