Re:What happened when Swedes tried six-hour days?
by dv_dt on Wednesday February 08, 2017 @12:13PM
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That's on the other side of the issue. My point was that there isn't anything like a 'proportional electiveness function' for the hours of work people are able to get with employment agreements. I think it looks like this for salaried professional employment: anything less than 40 is very low probability, 40-45 is very typical, and decreasing popularity in bins afterwards 50-60, 60+ etc.
Given that's the distribution, you can't say people won't don't want to elect for <40 for less pay, it's not a really a choice in the current environment.
Re:What happened when Swedes tried six-hour days?
by user5994461 on Wednesday February 08, 2017 @01:43PM
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> anything less than 40 is very low probability, 40-45 is very typical, and decreasing popularity in bins afterwards 50-60, 60+ etc.
Oh god. America is even worse than I thought.
You can certainly choose to work for a 40h company instead of a 60h company but the latter type of company doesn't seem to have any problems recruiting.