I have trouble working even 8 hours a day
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4it's incredible that the 8-hour workday was really a compromise with labor activists and people worked 10+ hours before that
@amerika how much did people work on average back then? or maybe better to ask, what was the average length of a white-collar vs blue-collar workday?
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Your observation -- people burn out after more than a few hours of work -- has always been true. Employers recognized this.
True sweatshops were the exception, but they tended to be inefficient and low quality. Henry Ford and others recognized this when they formalized short workweeks, knowing that there were breaks and slowdowns in the workday.
Your observation -- people burn out after more than a few hours of work -- has always been true. Employers recognized this.
True sweatshops were the exception, but they tended to be inefficient and low quality. Henry Ford and others recognized this when they formalized short workweeks, knowing that there were breaks and slowdowns in the workday.
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