If you had employees working over 30 hours a work you had to provide health insurance, so the university I work at started limiting student workers to 20 hours, way overkill just because of Obamacare, and it was like that all over the country, public and government employers...
There were some people and economists who said part time jobs were great, because you could spend more time with your family that way...
In real life, there was a lot of pain from people not getting enough hours to get by well!!
There were some people and economists who said part time jobs were great
Those would have been the Left-wing academics and government economists that have never had a real job or ran a business.