There ain’t no free lunch. In the real world, under the yellow sun, the workers will simply distribute their work among the 6 days and take more days off.
The idea that they will get another full day of productivity comes from some Harvard MBA fever swamp mentality.
Zorba won’t like this...
Actually, most EU countries and countries throughout the world typically had a 6 day work week before 1926... When Henry Ford introduced the 5 day work week.
Six day work-week, and work until 69, while welfare recipients take what we produce through the coercive force of government.
Hell no!
LOL
My granddad worked 12hr/day 7 days a week, 1/2 day off on Sunday. All for $150/month. Good pay for the time.
Ford paid $5/day - and the press went wild.
Meanwhile some US states are moving toward a four day work week. See https://tech.co/news/us-states-4-day-week Gee, how’s that going to work out for our competitiveness? (Hint: not good.) Five days is perfect. People need time to recharge. Although if you own parts of some small businesses as I do, my work week is seven days...
They need to remove the regulations and barriers to self employment in Greece. When I was on vacation there I made friends with several Greeks who were very educated, very ambitious, but stuck working waiter type jobs or working in small family shops. And the only reason the restaurants and shops were in business is they were established before the crazy left wingers. Even more left wing.
I told them how I started a business with a computer, software, and a a few busted up machines. I explained how we can write off everything, and how even my trip to Greece was a write off for part of it. I didn’t need any crazy licenses, minimal regulations, just a cheap business license for the county and insurance for my rental building. They were amazed how easy it was and told me how they have to go through a dozen local bureaucrats, the federal bureaucrats, and the worst of all, EU bureaucrats. The younger college educated people made more money living off welfare so that’s why there are so many “student protests.” They have nothing to do, no pride, and get paid for it anyway.
Great country. But what should have been announced is, “we are freeing up the labor rules so you can work as much as you want and the government will not pay any welfare.”
Like Mexico—unless you work for the government.
I’m just amused that a business owner needs national govt approval to ask an employee to work some overtime.
France went to 35 hour work week in 2000. And since they’re inherently lazy, you don’t get close to that much work out of them. Close up shop in France and you have o pay FU money in severance and pension.
They work in Greece ?
They decided to stop being so lazy like the Euroslobs who won’t pay for their own defense
The were on vacation!
Workers in Greece work more than those in the U.S., Japan and others in the 27-member EU, according to data from the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development.
I doubt that...
Greek employees were found to have worked an average of 1,886 hours in 2022, more than the U.S. average of 1,811 and the EU average of 1,571.
Federal employees pretend to work, more hours, but look at a governmental program, you might see 4 people watching one person working... 🤓