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Re:Rep. Takano Introduces Legislation to Reduce the Standard... by dragonwriter on Monday August 02, 2021 @11:55AM (#28038311)
> If the task is coverage-related (“be available to run a cash register” or “answer any phone call that comes in” or “watch this area for security purposes”), it’s exactly that ratio.

But no task that actually needs done is purely coverage related. If you want someone to watch dor security purposes, you want them to actually effectively secure it to some level, and if average ability to do that drops from overwork you need more people; if you want someone to run a cash register, just having a body next to it isn't enough, they have to actually perform correctly.

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Re:Rep. Takano Introduces Legislation to Reduce the Standard... by plorkyeran on Monday August 02, 2021 @01:09PM (#28039449)
Many coverage-related jobs don't require a person's full potential productivity, so the fact that their productivity goes down with hours worked is irrelevant. If a cashier at a low-volume store only rings up a customer every 10 minutes but you've decided that they need to stay parked by the register all day rather than doing other tasks between customers, it doesn't matter if it takes them twice as long to ring up a customer at the end of their shift as at the start.
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