Meaning more employees and then more overhead.

Oh no, the overhead! </s>

Which means less promotions and less raises because now it’s spread amongst more people. Businesses exist to make money

Why does it cost me money to make money, damn it?!

Lean into the absurdity already.

It’s probably easier to do 24/7 with a 4 day week, since it’s closer to half a week per employee.

I think there's a trade off between keeping business open for longer hours with more staff working on smaller shifts vs keeping business open 9-5 with one shift of workers to worry about. Managing more workers is costly, plus you pay more expenses in utilities etc when business is running longer than 9-5.

Yeah, that guy could be two guys, working four day weeks. I guess they'd overlap on Thursdays, but that's a detail.

We're pretty much at full employment. Labor force could get a few percentages bigger but I dont see where all these new people will come from

How is that happening - is a lot of that already gig jobs, part time, and so on?

Edit: it's an increase in full-time workers, with less increase in part-time workers.

https://fredblog.stlouisfed.org/2017/08/a-glass-half-full-or...

I don't know if this covers everyone. Anyway you may be right, employers just want all the work from all the people, at the moment.

From BS jobs to more meaningful and useful (for society and other people) jobs.

> that guy could be two guys

Why would a capitalist business owner spend more money?

Because there's a law that says he has to.