Working fewer hours would make us more productive

Re:Working fewer hours would make us more productive by alexc05 on Tuesday January 05, 2016 @08:53AM (#10843218)

> I agree that shorter hours are likely to be beneficial, but why are people trying to achieve this by passing a law? > I think that this can be achieved with a softer approach

That's a bit of a "trickle down economics" argument. Depending on corporations and owners to offer an option is never going to be as effective as passing a requirement.

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Re:Working fewer hours would make us more productive by golergka on Tuesday January 05, 2016 @09:19AM (#10843329)

> as effective

As long as you only care about "effectiveness" of the conversion to smaller working hours — yes. But my point is that we should care about creating an environment where people are actually free to choose how much are they supposed to work.

In other words, you argue of how effective we can be in achieving our goal, while I suggest redefining the goal itself.

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