[circlecity]

"With ObamaCare in the wings, the traditional forty- or fifty-hour work week will soon be replaced with a less than thirty-hour week for many American workers."

Or it will mean a 60 hour work week for two different employers.

[MrB]

An idea occurred...

why couldn’t the same employee be hired twice as two entities...
and both entities could work 20 hours per week.

[rarestia]

Or it will mean a 60 hour work week for two different employers.

My thoughts exactly. I'll embrace this if it means I keep my job. I'll even embrace a lack of health insurance. The idea of "insurance" has become this bastardized monolith of money for the poor.

It used to be in the 1950s that insurance was used to keep the household from going bankrupt. It INSURED against loss. Nowadays people think they have to have insurance to just walk into a doctor's office. They think they'll DIE if they don't have health insurance. Well I can tell you, haven't been unemployed for a long period, doctor offices LOVE if you pay cash and are willing to cut the cost of a visit in half or even more if you pay in cash. In the future, I'd bet that doctors will go back to making housecalls to get paid under the table. It'll create what the government will call a "black market" for healthcare, but that's essentially what they're forcing us to do.

[Little Ray]

Or you could fire them all and hire them back as independent contractors. Then you’d have a bunch of “small businesses” working for you. And, since they employ less than 100 people, they’re not subject to the (business) whims of ObamaCare.